Declaring Muslims foreigners strips them of presumed citizenship and licenses violence

Evidence

For Muslims living in Ashok Nagar, the minaret and the adhan, the daily call to prayer that rang from it, symbolized home. Yet, the Hindutva mob was summoned to the Islamic house of worship by another dictate, namely, proclamations from their beloved prime minister that Muslims were not genuinely Indian, but foreigners. … As law scholar Leti Volpp writes in relation to American Islamophobia, Muslim identity “undoes” political citizenship in the United States, a phenomenon that took violent form on the streets of Delhi. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 477

Categorization

• XREF: Volpp’s claim that Muslim identity undoes political citizenship maps directly onto the UK/US scholarship the reader already knows from earlier chapters and Iftikhar. — connects to: Muslim bans reclassified several nationalities as threatening enough to exclude. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 291; Muslim immigrants are detained for minor immigration violations that normally escape detention — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 564