Jewish Iranian refugees were granted asylum while Muslim Iranians faced suspicion

Evidence

Meanwhile, a wave of Jewish Iranians fleeing the new Khomeini regime was granted asylum in the United States, further evincing the role of religion in determining the level of threat posed by a particular (non-White) race. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 674

Categorization

• XREF: Precise instance of the book’s core thesis that racialization of Muslims is religiously inflected; echoes the definitional claim that Muslim is a race-like category.