Islam is ideologically expelled from religion itself in its racialization

Evidence

This prompts the question that runs throughout this book, Why is a religious group adversely racialized in the first place, as opposed to safeguarded by religious freedom norms? This chapter explains how the ideological expulsion of Islam from religion is integral to the social construction of the Racial Muslim. The media, politicians, and a well-funded Islamophobia industry position Islam as a national security threat within a global clash of civilizations. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 872

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s broader argument about religious freedom selectively applying to some faiths; also links to scholarship on securitization theory (Buzan/Waever) framing ‘threat’ as socially constructed. — connects to: Islamophobia has coalesced Muslims into a distinct racial group and Islam into a race. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 61; Polygamy jurisprudence racialized Islam by treating the practice as foreign and treasonable; Post-2010 discourse racialized not only visible Muslims but Islam itself as an ideology — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 262 (+15 more)