Islam itself constitutes a race produced by Islamophobic racecraft.

Evidence

It is time to take the step that others have been reluctant to take and recognize that the racecraft of Islamophobia has produced Muslims and the Islamicized as a racial class or group and Islam as a race. Both Islamophobia and Islam-as-race are the result of the dialectal relations between racism and a subject of racialized Muslims/Islamicized. Analogizing Islam to existing races but stopping short of viewing it as a race is no longer sufficient in the context of whitedominant societies in North America and Europe. To claim that Muslims are just racialized — or sometimes treated like a racial group — does not go far enough. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 106

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the book’s core claim: Islam-as-race as a distinct analytical step beyond mere racialization.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s question about whether a shared homeland/arrival narrative anchors identity inversion — this passage clarifies the anchor is connection to Islam, not geography. — connects to: Islam-as-race emerges only after Muslims coalesce as a racial group — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 110; Targeting and dialectical resistance have made Islam function as a race. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 34; Islam-as-race is a construct independent of actual religious practice. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 36 (+17 more)

Broader Connections

• Islam comes to function as a race through racecraft that erases internal ethnic differences #corroborates (0.90) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 516
• Islam functions as a full race in American and European hierarchies #corroborates (0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 527
• Racecraft is the discursive machinery that makes anti-Muslim racism seem rational #expands (0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 411
• Three historical strands weave into Islam being constituted as a race #expands (0.80) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 117
• Orientalism converted Muslim identity from a religion into a race. #corroborates (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 161
• Islam has shaped the race concept since its historical inception #expands (0.75)
• Islamophobia operates as a racial formation, not merely religious prejudice #corroborates (0.75) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 46
• Islamophobia functions as an alibi for contemporary race-making #corroborates (0.75) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 173
• Capitalist imperialism plus liberal societies produced Muslims as a full race #expands (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 117
• Islam has become a race despite scholars’ hesitation to name it so #qualifies (0.70)
• Islam has functionally become a race in law within the last twenty years #corroborates (0.70) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 34
• Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism #responds-to (0.70) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 910
• Islamophobia is increasingly theorized as a form of racism rather than mere religious prejudice #responds-to (0.70)
• Islam is ideologically expelled from religion itself in its racialization #expands (0.70) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 872
• Racializing Muslims holds race as both fixed and fluid #expands (0.70) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 105