Muslims deemed disloyal even when secularized

Evidence

The crux of the scene comes when Claire insists on Mo’s moral responsibility for the 9/11 attacks, despite his apparent secularity: ” ‘Followers of your religion have caused enormous pain, And for all of us it’s very difficult to sort out what Islam actually means or encourages.… A lot of Muslims who would never commit terrorism still support it, for political reasons if not religious ones.… So it’s not unreasonable for me to ask where on that continuum you sit. To learn at the hearing that you’ve never denounced the attack—I’ll be honest, that was upsetting. Why haven’t you?” (270, emphasis added). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 285 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: State repression forces immigrant Muslims into coerced secularization; Perceived disloyalty recasts Muslims as threat rather than discriminated minority — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 116; Islam was judged deficient for differing from Christian structures — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1266 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Even secular Muslims are held morally responsible for attacks by co-religionists #exemplifies (0.92) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 285