Racialized Muslim identity likely blocks immigrant Muslims from full citizenship benefits.

Evidence

By definition, Racial Muslims do not experience full religious freedom protections afforded to religious minorities. Nor are they considered to have an American national identity, even if they were born in the United States or possess US citizenship. Rather, Racial Muslims are a suspect race, permanent foreigners, and national security threats who warrant exclusion, purging, or incarceration to protect real (White Judeo-Christian) Americans. Their mere presence on US soil poses a national security threat. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 76 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Islamic identity rendered immigrants non-white in citizenship cases regardless of legal test — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 154; Islamic identity exceeded skin color in rendering Arabs non-white for citizenship; Muslim immigrants preferred strained whiteness arguments over an easier Blackness claim (+15 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial Muslims are denied American national identity despite citizenship or birth in the US. #corroborates (0.93) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 76