Formal legal equality coexists with justified second-class treatment for Muslims.

Evidence

I think that one of the great consequences of this intransigent “Other-izing” of Muslims is that there is little to no outrage when they are treated differently than other people. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 767 (#complicates, via linked claim)

When it comes to modern equivalents, Professor Lee minces no words. She once told National Public Radio (NPR) that today’s equivalent of the Chinese Exclusion Act was Donald Trump’s well-known Muslim Travel Ban. “The fact that we don’t explicitly name Muslims [in Trump’s executive order] is more of a reflection of how our racial sensibilities have changed over the past 135 years, in terms of being more polite in our racism,” she told NPR on the 135th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 749 (#expands, via linked claim)

The logic underlying these cases is that Muslims are naturally “predisposed” to commit violent acts and should therefore be put away. Downs explains that “to prove predisposition, the government claims that routine, normal behavior of the defendants––dress, religious observances, Islamic financial transactions, literature, etc.––indicates a ‘predisposition’ to commit terrorism, based on the false stereotype that all Muslims are predisposed to commit terrorism. If they are sufficiently ‘Muslim,’ they are sufficiently ‘predisposed.’” — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 463 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Constitutional violations are deemed acceptable when targeting Islam or Muslims. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 310; The acceptable Muslim stereotype demands Sufi, peaceful, feminist, moderate, non-Arab traits; Othering Muslims suppresses public outrage at their disparate treatment — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 767 (+5 more)

Related

• Routine Muslim religious practice is legally treated as evidence of terrorist predisposition (similarity 0.79)
• Constitutional violations are deemed acceptable when targeting Islam or Muslims. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Othering Muslims suppresses public outrage at their disparate treatment #complicates (0.55) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 767
• Modern racism against Muslims persists through more polite, euphemistic policy language #expands (0.55) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 749
• The acceptable Muslim stereotype demands Sufi, peaceful, feminist, moderate, non-Arab traits #expands (0.50)
• Routine Muslim religious practice is legally treated as evidence of terrorist predisposition #exemplifies (0.50) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 463
• The formal principle of justice requires treating relevantly similar cases alike #corroborates (0.40) — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 418