Groups invoke state neutrality only when they cannot dominate it

Evidence

The catholics would like the State to be interventionist one hundred per cent in their favour; failing that, or where they are in a minority, they call for a “neutral” State, so that it should not support their adversaries. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 974

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Mechanism feeds Islamophobia readings on how Muslim-minority groups’ calls for ‘neutral’ secularism vs interventionist sharia are strategic positions, not principles.
• SEED: Article angle: neutrality as a positional demand of the minority, not a principled stance — tracing the Catholic parochial school debates and their contemporary secularism analogs.