Cultural racism targets Muslims’ beliefs and traditions as if they were inherited essence.

Evidence

Surveillance of culture is racialized when cultural practices are essentialized as innate to Muslims, subjecting them to intense scrutiny. For example, any abuse that Muslim women experience at the hands of Muslim men is reduced to religious cultural values perpetuated by Islam. The Taliban’s treatment of women in Afghanistan is an example of this culturally fueled racism. Muslim women were constructed as in need of saving from Muslim men, which in turn justified the invasion of Afghanistan (Razack 2008 Abu-Lughod 2013). Another example of this is the misconception that Muslim women are forced to wear the hijab. Private citizens chastise Muslim American women who wear the hijab because for them it represents subservience to patriarchy, rather than being understood as a choice. Wearing the hijab is treated as a cultural aberration to American societal values and individuals who wear it are understood as antimodern and antifeminist. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 274 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Questioning multiculturalism opened a path from policy critique to blaming Muslims — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 360; Majorities in Western countries blamed Muslims for the cartoon conflict. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 419; Halliday argues modern hostility targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 87 (+19 more)

Related

• Religious cultural practices get read as evidence of Muslim men’s misogyny rather than doctrine. (similarity 0.94)
• Cultural practices become racialized when they are essentialized as innate to Muslims (similarity 0.94)
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural traits for biological ones in racializing groups. (similarity 0.92)
• Cultural traits like language, clothing, and religious practice can racialize a group. (similarity 0.90)
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural difference for biological difference as a racial logic (similarity 0.90)
• Racialization operates through cultural traits and social interactions, not only physical cues. (similarity 0.89)
• Islamic culture seemed monolithically tyrannical to Southey (similarity 0.86)
• Cultural and religious practices can racialize a body just as skin tone does (similarity 0.85)
• Racism functions as practices that ascribe and legitimate social positions (similarity 0.84)
• Cultural and religious practices become racialized markers treated as inherent traits. (similarity 0.84)
• Muslims move down the racial hierarchy rather than becoming a new race (similarity 0.83)
• Muslim Americans are racialized even when visibly white, so racialization must include cultural traits (similarity 0.83)
• South Asian racial classification has been fluid and contested in the US. (similarity 0.83)
• Culturalizing explanations of Muslim inequality blame victims while masking structural causes. (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural racism explains Muslim violence through religion rather than lived circumstances (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Cultural practices become racialized when they are essentialized as innate to Muslims #corroborates (0.85) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 274
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural traits for biological ones in racializing groups. #expands (0.75)
• Cultural traits like language, clothing, and religious practice can racialize a group. #expands (0.70)