Distance from Anglo-Saxon Protestantism predicts a group’s place in the racial hierarchy.

Evidence

That Italians and Germans, who were legally White and predominantly Catholic, were not subjected to the same harsh treatment demonstrates that the further away a group’s phenotype and religion is from Anglo-Saxon Protestantism, the lower they are in the racial-religious hierarchy. It also cues the subsequent expansion of Whiteness to include previously disfavored Europeans. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 345

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 345