Muslim outreach equated American and Muslim moral values

Evidence

Because Aziz felt he was constantly judged, he told me he has changed some of his actions. For example, after a terrorist attack in India, he made sure to contact his friend who grew up in India to inquire about his family’s safety in order to show him he condemned the terrorist attack. He knew his friend was not from the region where the attack occurred, but he also worried his friend would have negative feelings toward him because he was Muslim. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 447 (#complicates, via linked claim)

This line of questioning is one of the ways Nabeel is marginalized from being seen as a normal college student and a typical American. He recognizes the discrepancy in how Christian or Jewish students his age are not grilled about their religious practices because they are seen as the norm in America. Because a Muslim identity and an American identity are treated as if they are contentious, the more religious a Muslim seems to be, the less American they appear in the public’s eyes. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 450 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Muslim Americans alter their behavior to preemptively prove their loyalty — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 447; Muslim inclusion in American civic life comes at the price of disciplined loyalty; Western leaders’ outreach pledges to Muslims produced more harm than reconciliation — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1043 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Muslim inclusion in American civic life comes at the price of disciplined loyalty #complicates (0.85)
• Muslim Americans alter their behavior to preemptively prove their loyalty #complicates (0.82) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 447
• The more religious a Muslim appears, the less American they are perceived to be #complicates (0.80) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 450
• Performing Americanness forces Muslims to downplay or conceal their faith #complicates (0.79) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 343
• Western leaders’ outreach pledges to Muslims produced more harm than reconciliation #complicates (0.76) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1043
• Religious identity replaced ethnicity as the marker making Muslim Americans seen as anti-American #complicates (0.75)