Religious identity racializes Arab and South Asian Muslims along shared lines

Evidence

That he was misidentified by once friendly customers and neighbors as an “Afghani” or a “Pakistani” reveals how Arab and South Asian identities have become conflated with Islam. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 173 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Race and religion are inextricably intertwined in Islamophobic discourse. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 104; Muslims suffer hostility for perceived identity beyond any voluntary religious choice. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 96; Orientalist scholarship conflates Muslims and Jews into one racial type (+45 more)

Related

• Arab and South Asian identities have been conflated with Islam (similarity 0.91)
• Private citizens conflate Islam with the Middle East, erasing Muslim ethnic diversity (similarity 0.90)
• Islam as identity marker is internationalist solidarity, not Arab nationalism recoded (similarity 0.88)
• Muslim men can be racialized by ethnicity alone, not only by disclosed religion (similarity 0.87)
• Muslim religious identity becomes a racial category through surveillance. (similarity 0.86)
• Muslim identity ejects Arabs from whiteness and strips them of its material benefits (similarity 0.86)
• Muslim identity stripped South Asian men of their model-minority racial privilege (similarity 0.86)
• Muslims get racialized via projected religious ancestry regardless of self-understanding (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalism converted Muslim identity from a religion into a race. (similarity 0.85)
• Muslim identity cannot be reduced to religion alone (similarity 0.84)
• Post-1965 South Asian and Arab immigrants enjoyed class privileges that African Americans were denied (similarity 0.84)
• The composite Oriental racial category fused South Asian Hindus with MENA Muslims (similarity 0.84)
• Muslims suffer hostility for perceived identity beyond any voluntary religious choice. (similarity 0.84)
• The racialized content of the Muslim category persisted across changing labels (similarity 0.83)
• Arab ethnic identity is linguistic and cultural, distinct from Muslim religious identity. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance justified by religious identity constitutes racialization of Muslims #corroborates (0.85)
• Arab and South Asian identities have been conflated with Islam #corroborates (0.80) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 173
• Religious identity can be racialized when signifiers trigger profiling #corroborates (0.80)
• Religious identity replaced ethnicity as the marker making Muslim Americans seen as anti-American #expands (0.75)
• Muslim identity stripped South Asian men of their model-minority racial privilege #exemplifies (0.70)
• An ethnic minority identity invites questions while a Muslim identity invites hostile expulsion #expands (0.70)
• Muslim names alone can racialize phenotypically white people #expands (0.65) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 91
• Muslims move down the racial hierarchy rather than becoming a new race #qualifies (0.60)
• Muslim men can be racialized by ethnicity alone, not only by disclosed religion #qualifies (0.60)
• Cultural practices become racialized when they are essentialized as innate to Muslims #expands (0.60) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 274