Once Islam itself is the problem, Muslims are permanently unassimilable.

Evidence

Here we see how the practices of racism concentrate on people with a shared link to Islam to create a racial group. Once Islam itself has become the problem, Muslims cannot assimilate. They become a permanent subordinated group like other races while Islamicization sweeps in those even those Muslims who do not, and do not have to, practice the religion of Islam. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 252

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reader’s own work on how treating a signifier as racialized makes assimilation structurally impossible — resonates with racialization arguments in Aziz and with whiteness studies. — connects to: People who seem white can be raced non-white on the basis of Islam alone. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 252; Post-2010 discourse racialized not only visible Muslims but Islam itself as an ideology — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 262; Muslim bans reclassified several nationalities as threatening enough to exclude. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 291 (+3 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 5 times within its source

Broader Connections

• When Islam itself is deemed the problem, assimilation demands its excision. #corroborates (1.00) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 296
• Once sharia is problematized the whole Muslim identity becomes delegitimized #expands (0.92)