Passing as white let converts overhear anti-Muslim bigotry aimed at visible Muslims.

Evidence

However, as a white man whose racial identity concealed his faith, Abdullah remained privy to the unfiltered comments of white people who claimed “We are losing our Anglo Saxon way of life” or “[It’s] time to vote and get back our country from these fucking Muslims.” These were regular comments, from “regular” white men and women. Abdullah’s white skin protected him from the stereotypes, the suspicion, and the stares that follow visible Muslims. But, as he grew his beard, wore his thobe and “proudly walk[ed] to my local masjid,” his whiteness would gradually become cloaked with the markers of terrorism that are assigned to the new faith he embraced after the Christchurch massacres. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 933

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• XREF: connects to: Passing into whiteness pressured every racialized group, not just Muslim immigrants — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 190