School administrators accommodated observant Jewish and social events but not Muslim prayer

Evidence

Meanwhile, the Leadership class was planning further school events for the year, which entailed rearranging the dance schedule twice, once when the dance landed on the night of a Jewish holiday, which would have prevented the religious Jewish students from attending, and again when the event fell on the same night as the sweet-sixteen party of one of the girls in Leadership. Steam poured out of Yasmin’s ears at the double standard. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 383

Categorization

• XREF: Cuts against the common narrative that post-9/11 discrimination came only from malice — here it’s selective accommodation, which connects to the author’s broader argument in One Square Inch about regulatory mechanisms failing for the less-favored. — connects to: Minority religions exercising the same rights are routinely excluded from schools — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 870