State loyalty pressure has rendered public Islam indistinguishable from Judeo-Christian civic discourse

Evidence

Islam in America has never been simply a religion one chooses. From the gaze of the state and society, Islam was and still is an indelible marker of otherness, and in war-on-terror America, it is a political identity that instantly triggers the suspicion of acts of terror and subversion. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 69 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: He then quotes a Palestinian fighter in Afghanistan to show his definition of jihad: holy war against the West and violence against ‘Jews and infidels.’ Such a simplistic and superficial definition of jihad causes him to blame all Muslims for the consequences of militant Islam. His book leaves readers with the idea that all Muslim immigrants are potential terrorists simply because they are Muslim. He completely ignores the identity of the American Muslim population, painting Islam as a ‘foreign’ and ‘terrorist’ ideology that has penetrated American society. In short, his book depicts any identification with Islam as a threat everyone, non-Muslims and Muslims alike because it cannot coexist with other religions due to its inherent nature of allowing Muslims to impose their faith on others. Furthermore, Emerson deliberately leaves the word ‘Allah’ untranslated in his book in order to give off the idea that the Muslims’ concept of God is different from the Judeo-Christian concept of God. He also uses terminology such as ‘holy jihad’ and ‘militant jihad’ in order to instill fear in his readers.; Muslim inclusion in American civic life comes at the price of disciplined loyalty; Islam in America operates as a political identity of otherness beyond religion — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 69 (+1 more)

Related

• Islam in America operates as a political identity of otherness beyond religion (similarity 0.89)
• Muslim inclusion in American civic life comes at the price of disciplined loyalty (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia adapts to each society’s own governing concerns (similarity 0.81)
• Post-war American identity structurally excluded Islam as foreign (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia is a conflict over American identity rooted in racial and religious bitterness. (similarity 0.80)
• The Satanic Verses affair forged Muslims into an organized political identity category. (similarity 0.80)
• American Islamophobia positioned Muslims as a wholly external other unlike domestic religious minorities (similarity 0.80)
• Perceiving Muslims as disloyal shifts the policy frame from anti-discrimination to securitization. (similarity 0.80)
• Muslims are positioned as an external threat against America’s internal enemies. (similarity 0.79)
• Flattening Islam into one object enabled civilizational judgments against it (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobes, not Muslims, constitute the gravest threat to American civil liberties (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia is a state-driven dialectic shaping popular attitudes toward Muslims (similarity 0.79)
• The reified notion of Islam has hindered rather than helped understanding of Muslim societies (similarity 0.79)
• American rhetoric repeatedly fused Muslim identity with fanaticism (similarity 0.79)
• Post-Cold War American identity depends on having a Muslim enemy (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Islam in America operates as a political identity of otherness beyond religion #corroborates (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 69