Racialization targets even elected African American Muslim officials

Evidence

Islamophobia infects American politics as elected officials propagate racist depictions of Muslims as presumptive security threats. No Muslim is immune from the effects of such racialization. Indeed, when in 2007 Keith Ellison, an African American Muslim, asked to use the Quran when he was sworn in as representative of the Fifth Congressional District of Minnesota, conservative politicians were outraged. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 812

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Elected officials of color face steep barriers when contesting dominant Islamophobia