Tennessee officials equated a mosque with the KKK while institutionalizing the actual Klan.

Evidence

The commissioner then responded remarkably that he did not know if the KKK is a terrorist organization. Both the people defending the decision to permit the ICM and its opponents equated the mosque with the KKK without questioning that false equivalence. The implication was that if an Islamic house of worship was permitted, then a historically violent white supremacist organization should also be sanctioned. Yet no one seems to have appreciated the irony that in the context of Tennessee, the KKK has not only been tolerated, but has indeed been celebrated and institutionalized in the past. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 415

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Litigants weaponized court proceedings to spread anti-Muslim racist tropes — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 345; Anti-Muslim attacks on civil society echo Klan and Know Nothing animus. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 793; Anti-imperial solidarity framed Islam’s appeal during the 1920s Klan resurgence — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 583 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Muslim attacks on civil society echo Klan and Know Nothing animus. #expands (0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 793
• Anti-imperial solidarity framed Islam’s appeal during the 1920s Klan resurgence #qualifies (0.70) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 583