Demands to assimilate Muslims logically require excising Islam itself

Evidence

But what is required of Muslims upon whom demands for assimilation are made when the problem is Islam? That is to say, how can one become an assimilated Muslim when the very thing that makes one a Muslim is rendered the problem to be excised from the person? … At one end, assimilation translates to the public adherence to American norms of a private religious belief; that is to say, a public secularism with religion to be practiced in the private sphere. At the other end, assimilation requires Muslims to shed Islam altogether. For those like the significant number of lawmakers who have made Islam the problem, nothing short of leaving Islam is acceptable. The space for a public role for non-Christian religions is vanishingly small, if there is one at all. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 296

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with assimilation demands on non-religious ethnic minorities where conformity targets culture rather than the defining identity itself. — connects to: Islam as race makes Muslim assimilation permanently impossible. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 252; Lawmakers distinguished individual Muslims from Islam itself as the incompatibility target; Assimilation demands on Muslims require abandoning Islam itself, not just privatizing it — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 296 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Assimilation demands on Muslims require abandoning Islam itself, not just privatizing it #expands (0.95) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 296
• When Islam itself is deemed the problem, assimilation demands its excision. #expands (0.90) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 296
• Muslims cannot assimilate into a polity defined against Islam itself #expands (0.82) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 311
• Islam is ideologically expelled from religion itself in its racialization #expands (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 872
• Liberal tolerance of reformed Islam coexists with nativist demands to end Islam itself #corroborates (0.78) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 303
• Once sharia is problematized the whole Muslim identity becomes delegitimized #expands (0.76)
• Countering Islamophobia works best by demanding equal ground rules rather than defending Islam itself #complicates (0.72) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 713