Race makes state claims about latent Muslim violence seem credible

Evidence

When the task is to pin down belief and to extrapolate that beliefs are an indicator of a latent commitment to violence that can never fade, race is an important pivot on which the story must turn. Race makes it possible to accept the outlines of the state’s story about ideology because it helps us to believe readily in Muslim irrationality and the monsters it spawns. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 121