Religiosity plus foreign-policy dissent makes Muslims prime targets for state repression

Evidence

Secularism and support for American militarism in Muslim-majority countries signify higher levels of assimilation into White Christian normalcy. The Secular Racial Muslim thus is the least threatening, both for liberal elites and for religious conservatives. In contrast, Islamic beliefs and practices coupled with dissent against American foreign policy make him a Religious Dissident Racial Muslim targeted for surveillance, prosecution, deportation, denaturalization, and private discrimination. The Former Racial Muslim, meanwhile, serves as a native informant who legitimizes repression of the other four categories of Racial Muslims. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 81

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: State surveillance treated militant Islam as more threatening than non-violent Christianity — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 193; U.S. lawmakers framed devout Muslim practice as treasonous grounds for military exclusion — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 285