Polygamy jurisprudence racialized Islam by treating the practice as foreign and treasonable

Evidence

Surveillance of culture is racialized when cultural practices are essentialized as innate to Muslims, subjecting them to intense scrutiny. For example, any abuse that Muslim women experience at the hands of Muslim men is reduced to religious cultural values perpetuated by Islam. The Taliban’s treatment of women in Afghanistan is an example of this culturally fueled racism. Muslim women were constructed as in need of saving from Muslim men, which in turn justified the invasion of Afghanistan (Razack 2008 Abu-Lughod 2013). Another example of this is the misconception that Muslim women are forced to wear the hijab. Private citizens chastise Muslim American women who wear the hijab because for them it represents subservience to patriarchy, rather than being understood as a choice. Wearing the hijab is treated as a cultural aberration to American societal values and individuals who wear it are understood as antimodern and antifeminist. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 274 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

We recognize that Islamophobia as a form of racial discrimination is not the only challenge facing British Muslims. There are clearly widespread bigoted and false perceptions about Islam as a faith. These feed Islamophobia as a form of discrimination, for example justifying discrimination in the labour market. Justifying discrimination or inequality by referencing the cultural practices of minority groups is a defining characteristic of all forms of prejudice and racism. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 108 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Islam has functionally become a race in law within the last twenty years; Islam is ideologically expelled from religion itself in its racialization — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 872; Federal courts treated polygamous family norms as racial threats to democratic society (+9 more)

Related

• Religious cultural practices get read as evidence of Muslim men’s misogyny rather than doctrine. (similarity 0.85)
• Cultural practices become racialized when they are essentialized as innate to Muslims (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural racism targets Muslims’ beliefs and traditions as if they were inherited essence. (similarity 0.82)
• Legal vilification of polygamy racialized non-monogamous religious groups as foreign barbarians (similarity 0.82)
• Gender shapes both how Muslims are racialized and how they respond (similarity 0.80)
• Cultural and religious practices can racialize a body just as skin tone does (similarity 0.80)
• Islamic culture seemed monolithically tyrannical to Southey (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobic experience varies with race, gender, location, and regime type (similarity 0.80)
• Muslims move down the racial hierarchy rather than becoming a new race (similarity 0.79)
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural traits for biological ones in racializing groups. (similarity 0.79)
• Supreme Court racialized Mormons by associating polygamy with Asian and African peoples (similarity 0.79)
• Islam is ideologically expelled from religion itself in its racialization (similarity 0.79)
• Islam has functionally become a race in law within the last twenty years (similarity 0.79)
• Cultural and religious practices become racialized markers treated as inherent traits. (similarity 0.79)
• The Supreme Court framed monogamy as the racial foundation of democratic society (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Federal courts treated polygamous family norms as racial threats to democratic society #corroborates (0.92)
• Cultural practices become racialized when they are essentialized as innate to Muslims #corroborates (0.85) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 274
• Anti-Muslim discrimination is justified by invidious reference to Muslim cultural practices #corroborates (0.82) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 108
• Islam is ideologically expelled from religion itself in its racialization #expands (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 872
• Racialized religion explains why religious-freedom advocates justify targeting Muslims. #expands (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 197
• Legal vilification of polygamy racialized non-monogamous religious groups as foreign barbarians #expands (0.80) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 147
• Supreme Court racialized Mormons by associating polygamy with Asian and African peoples #expands (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 328
• Muslims are racialized as a social group rather than a religious one #expands (0.78)