Sectarian and linguistic divides disqualify Iran from Islamic leadership

Evidence

These cases indicate that the semantics around ethnicity, nationality, and religion are insufficient to explain the totality of bias incidents and discrimination navigated by Iranians and other liminal whites. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 39 (#complicates, via linked claim)

To derace Nonmacher’s poster is to ignore its central reference to white vigilantism and the lynching of African Americans. To derace Nonmacher’s poster is also to omit the poster’s caption, which appropriates the cowboys-and-Indians trope to amalgamate indigeneity and Iranianness in the service of shorthand for a racial battle between the “civilized” and the “barbaric.” To explain a poster of a fantasized American lynching as ethnic bigotry, religious intolerance, or nativist hatred is to tell twenty-eight-year-old Husein Hadi, the Iranian American organizer who said, “There’s no reason why there should be racism around,” that at Nonmacher’s Bar-B-Que there is in fact no racism around. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 34 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Language proximity cannot explain why Iran avoided Arabization — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 280; The Indo-European language tree gave Iran a scientific excuse to disavow Arab kinship — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 200; Deracializing Iranian discrimination as ‘Islamophobia’ obscures its racial character — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 34 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Ethnicity, nationality, and religion cannot fully explain anti-Iranian bias #complicates (0.80) — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 39
• Pan-Islamic solidarity overrode intra-Muslim sectarian and political divides #complicates (0.74)
• Deracializing Iranian discrimination as ‘Islamophobia’ obscures its racial character #complicates (0.72) — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 34