Muslims can exercise real political influence through conventional electoral politics

Evidence

The most transformative is that Muslims can be American, already are American, and that the political system—in Dearborn—is a social field over which they can exercise considerable influence. This has nothing to do with shari`ah and everything to do with conventional electoral politics and immigrant incorporation. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 717

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s book-wide question on the pivot from interrogating Islam to the frightened subject — this chapter shows the object of fear organically incorporated via ordinary politics.