Different racial classifications converge through shared religious identity

Evidence

As a result, Arab Muslims and South Asian Muslims, who are classified differently racially, are sharing racial experiences because their religious identity racializes them in similar ways. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 82

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the core thesis of religious racialization — that religion operates as a racializing mechanism that overrides documented racial classification.
• XREF: Directly anchors the reader’s Global Racial Enemy slot; links to Beydoun and Sian who trace similar racialization of Muslim identity. — connects to: Race was co-constituted with religion in European history. — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 31; The composite Oriental racial category fused South Asian Hindus with MENA Muslims; Evangelical religion supplied shared values enabling interracial women’s cooperation — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 452