Immigrant Muslim criticism of the NOI performed identity to curry state favor.

Evidence

In “Islamism and Its African American Muslim Critics,” historian Edward E. Curtis reflects on this critical impasse, when immigration quotas were dissolved and immigrant Muslims came to the United States in large numbers: “As negative portrayals in the mainstream press and criticism from black leaders increased, more and more Muslims in the United States joined to condemn, dispute, and reject the teachings of Elijah Muhammad and the NOI. Their criticism of the NOI was a public performance of Muslim identity that expressed the growing cultural power of foreign and immigrant Muslims.” … Although the Nation of Islam played a key role in fighting for legislation dissolving restrictive immigration quotas, thereby enabling non-black Muslims to come to the United States, immigrant Muslims swiftly turned their back on black Muslims in favor of placating the state that had restricted their entry for nearly two centuries. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 441

Categorization

• XREF: Curtis’s ‘public performance of Muslim identity’ is a precise mechanism instance of private Islamophobia as performance — cross-links to the reading purpose’s structural/private dialectic. — connects to: Immigrant Muslims aided the state in delegitimizing black Muslims. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 440; The state used immigrant Muslims to delegitimize the Nation of Islam. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 440; US administrations used symbolic inclusion of Islam to recruit Muslims into state interests.
• QUESTION: Curtis’s account explains why immigrant Muslims attacked the NOI, but the payoff — that they did so to placate the state — seems to merge their motive with the state’s use; worth checking Curtis’s fuller account for whether the state actually rewarded this performance.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 441

Broader Connections

• The state used immigrant Muslims to delegitimize the Nation of Islam. #contradicts (0.65) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 440
• Immigrant Muslims aided the state in delegitimizing black Muslims. #contradicts (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 440
• US administrations used symbolic inclusion of Islam to recruit Muslims into state interests. #complicates (0.40)