Framing Muslims as an alien body is itself a biopolitical practice.

Evidence

If the “Muslim Question” can be seen and approached as the general problematization of Muslims as “Muslims,” a problematization which includes the characterization of Muslims as an alien body to the nation, then the “Muslim Question” is biopolitics. It is part, and indeed has become central, to the regulation, management, and control of (national) populations in Europe, and in the West at large. — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”, 624

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘Muslim Question’ as a biopolitical apparatus rather than an empirical fact about Muslims.
• XREF: Echoes Said’s Orientalism and the ‘Jewish Question’ literature — the minority framed as a problem to be solved by the nation.