People who seem white can be raced non-white on the basis of Islam alone.

Evidence

The final thread of this genealogy brings us to the present. Established practices of racism—forged in colonialism and slavery—act against a new subject population, and the developing identity of the Islamicized begins to cohere and indicate the formation of a race. In this third thread of the genealogy, the continuity that Islam is a non-white religion is underscored by tightening the nexus between it and the identities of its practitioners from Black to Arab and now to an amalgam of Others including people who seem white but are raced as non-white increasingly homogenized on the basis of Islam. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 252

Categorization

• XREF: Directly comparable to Aziz’s ‘Racial Muslim’ argument: Choudhury extends the race-assignment logic to whites converted/associated with Islam, a step Aziz grounds historically. — connects to: Islamic identity exceeded skin color in rendering Arabs non-white for citizenship; Once Islam itself is the problem, Muslims are permanently unassimilable. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 252; Islam’s racial function shifts with changing Muslim demographics. (+14 more)
• DEFINE: Establishes the core ‘Islamicized’ concept: raced on Islam alone, independent of practice.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 252
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Sustained connection to Islam, not geography or phenotype, determines racial inclusion as Muslim. #corroborates (0.92) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 107
• Muslim names alone can racialize phenotypically white people #exemplifies (0.90) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 91
• Muslims were racialized through cultural signifiers rather than phenotype alone #corroborates (0.90) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 106
• Converting to Islam causes white people to be reracialized as non-white #exemplifies (0.85) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 89
• The racialized Muslim category is fluid enough to absorb non-Muslims perceived as Muslim #expands (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 630
• Lighter skin and Westernized names let some Muslims pass as white #qualifies (0.85)
• Islam itself constitutes a race produced by Islamophobic racecraft. #expands (0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 106
• Muslim men can be racialized by ethnicity alone, not only by disclosed religion #corroborates (0.80)
• A white non-Muslim can be forced into the Muslim’s demonological position #exemplifies (0.80)
• Muslim identity was legally treated as proof of non-whiteness #corroborates (0.75) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 979