Labeling Muslims as premodern licenses intervention without evidence of harm

Evidence

With their eviction from modernity, it now becomes possible to justify a considerable degree of state intervention against Muslims without the inconvenience of showing any direct connection between laws and policies and the harm they are intended to address. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 291

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 291
• XREF: connects to: European veil bans rest on cultural racism casting Islam as premodern — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 313