Islam as race makes Muslim assimilation permanently impossible.

Evidence

Once Islam itself has become the problem, Muslims cannot assimilate. They become a permanent subordinated group like other races while Islamicization sweeps in those even those Muslims who do not, and do not have to, practice the religion of Islam. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 252

Categorization

• XREF: This assimilation-impossibility claim is the heart of Aziz’s argument that Muslims constitute a race in law, worth comparing on force and sources. — connects to: Anti-Muslim and antisemitic persecution became racism when conversion was deemed biologically impossible. — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 49; Muslims cannot assimilate into a polity defined against Islam itself — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 311; Islam is ideologically expelled from religion itself in its racialization — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 872 (+11 more)
• SEED: Essay angle: when religious identity operates as race, assimilation is structurally barred—distinguishing religious from racial prejudice in the Islam case.

Broader Connections

• Once Islam itself is the problem, Muslims are permanently unassimilable. #expands (0.93) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 252
• Muslims cannot assimilate into a polity defined against Islam itself #expands (0.90) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 311
• Anti-Muslim and antisemitic persecution became racism when conversion was deemed biologically impossible. #corroborates (0.88) — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 49
• Demands to assimilate Muslims logically require excising Islam itself #corroborates (0.87) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 296
• Muslims get racialized via projected religious ancestry regardless of self-understanding #expands (0.82) — Mareike Riedel, Islamophobia, Racial Discrimination…, 64
• Racialized Muslim identity likely blocks immigrant Muslims from full citizenship benefits. #corroborates (0.82)
• Islam is ideologically expelled from religion itself in its racialization #expands (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 872
• Racialization dooms all Muslims to a lower caste regardless of individual merit #corroborates (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 160
• Muslims can evade racialization by concealing religious difference #complicates (0.80)
• African American Muslims remain permanently racialized regardless of identity performance #corroborates (0.78)
• Islam functionally disqualified citizenship applicants from whiteness regardless of method #corroborates (0.78) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 153
• Converting to Islam causes white people to be reracialized as non-white #exemplifies (0.76) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 89
• Muslim identity cannot be reduced to religion alone #qualifies (0.74) — Fred Halliday, ‘Islamophobia’ Reconsidered, 43
• There is no biological or ethnic basis for a monolithic Islam. #complicates (0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 162