Comparing Muslims to blacks erases that African Americans are the largest American-born Muslim group

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• American racism against Muslims extends back to enslaved Africans (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobic claims serve to positively define their speakers rather than describe Muslims (similarity 0.83)
• African American and immigrant Muslims face distinct forms of anti-Muslim racism. (similarity 0.83)
• Muslim America’s narrative is rooted in blackness, not Arab identity (similarity 0.83)
• Muslim racialization developed relationally with other minority racializations. (similarity 0.83)
• Educated Muslim Africans fit neither colonial legal category, exposing the republic’s contradiction. (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-Muslim racism operates through a distinct racial logic (similarity 0.82)
• American society explains rare Muslim terror through religion itself (similarity 0.82)
• The list itself is a racializing practice targeting Muslim men (similarity 0.82)
• Understanding discrimination against Muslims requires analyzing race and religion together (similarity 0.81)
• Multiple intersecting macro factors, not single causes, produce systematic anti-Muslim discrimination (similarity 0.81)
• African American Muslims are racialized as Black before being seen as Muslim (similarity 0.81)
• The ‘Muslims are the new blacks’ claim erases black Muslims’ longstanding existence. (similarity 0.81)
• Even anti-Islamophobic Muslim novels indirectly accept the frame they oppose. (similarity 0.81)
• The racialization of Muslims mirrors how earlier faith groups threatened Protestant identity. (similarity 0.80)