Dissident Muslim activists link structural racism and imperial violence as one common cause

Evidence

Rejecting the liberal colorblind model of civil rights, a strategy of engaged resistance to racism has become the animating theme of their cross-racial alliances. Defiant in their refusal to hide their religious identity and political beliefs, Dissident Racial Muslims (many of whom are US born) work with other racial minority groups to identify structural racism and imperial violence as the common cause of Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, homophobia, and anti-Latinx xenophobia. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1043

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the book’s category of ‘Dissident Racial Muslims’ and their organizing premise.