Islam-as-race is a construct independent of actual religious practice.

Evidence

In this paper, I theorize “Islam-as-race” and not an Islamic race, which, in my mind, implies an actual belief in and/or practice of Islam as a religion. Islam-as-race is a construction which posits that Islam has multiple meanings that range from the religious to the cultural and now to the racial. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 36

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the construct’s scope for the thread: ‘Islam-as-race’ attaches to anyone Islamicized regardless of belief or practice.
• XREF: connects to: Targeting and dialectical resistance have made Islam function as a race. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 34; Islam itself constitutes a race produced by Islamophobic racecraft. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 106; Sustained connection to Islam, not geography or phenotype, determines racial inclusion as Muslim. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 107 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Islam itself constitutes a race produced by Islamophobic racecraft. #corroborates (1.00) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 106
• Muslim religious identity is ascribed by outsiders, not internal practice #corroborates (0.95)
• Islam comes to function as a race through racecraft that erases internal ethnic differences #expands (0.90) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 516
• Sustained connection to Islam, not geography or phenotype, determines racial inclusion as Muslim. #expands (0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 107
• Muslims get racialized via projected religious ancestry regardless of self-understanding #expands (0.85) — Mareike Riedel, Islamophobia, Racial Discrimination…, 64
• Muslim identity cannot be reduced to religion alone #expands (0.85) — Fred Halliday, ‘Islamophobia’ Reconsidered, 43
• Islam has functionally become a race in law within the last twenty years #corroborates (0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 34
• Islamophobia operates as a racial formation, not merely religious prejudice #expands (0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 46
• Islamophobia has coalesced Muslims into a distinct racial group and Islam into a race. #corroborates (0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 61
• People who seem white can be raced non-white on the basis of Islam alone. #corroborates (0.80) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 252
• The racialized Muslim category is fluid enough to absorb non-Muslims perceived as Muslim #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 630
• Islam as a monolith is a nominal fiction masking internal diversity #qualifies (0.80)
• Islam is ideologically expelled from religion itself in its racialization #expands (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 872
• Muslims can evade racialization by concealing religious difference #qualifies (0.75)