Muslims cannot assimilate into a polity defined against Islam itself
Evidence
In sum, the problem is that it is impossible for Muslims as Muslims to assimilate into a culture and a political community that has defined itself in opposition to Islam. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 311
In sum, the problem is that it is impossible for Muslims as Muslims to assimilate into a culture and a political community that has defined itself in opposition to Islam. Moreover, particularly over the last four years, and certainly since 9/11, the suspicion of Muslims as a group, as a community demanding recognition distinct from that of mainstream Americans, has grown. Overt markers of difference have become focal points of attack and none more so than the symbol of the Muslim community: the mosque. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 311
Categorization
- XREF: The impossibility-of-assimilation framing matches the Citizenship-Amendment and membership-exclusion dynamics traced across my Islamophobia sources. — connects to: Islam is politically constitutive yet positioned outside the political; Muslim immigrants are simultaneously included in and excluded from the ideological construction of Europe; Refusing assimilation to Muslims would cause them to forge their own nation (+7 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 311
Broader Connections
- The ‘going Muslim’ trope denied Muslims the capacity for true integration
#expands(0.85) - Islam is politically constitutive yet positioned outside the political
#expands(0.80) - Islam could be tolerated only in silent subjugation, never as an equal religion
#expands(0.80) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 673 - Muslim immigrants are simultaneously included in and excluded from the ideological construction of Europe
#corroborates(0.75) - Refusing assimilation to Muslims would cause them to forge their own nation
#qualifies(0.72)