The association of Islam with terror was structured into national security laws

Evidence

South Asian Muslim immigrants and their offspring have historically been denied complete access to an American identity (Kibria 1998; Purkayastha 2005; Dhingra 2007), but because the association of Islam with terror has been structured into laws and policies that dealt with national security after 9/11, their experiences changed. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 19

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sets up the core theoretical move of the book: Islam’s racialization happens through law and policy, not just social prejudice.
• XREF: Links directly to Beydoun’s American Islamophobia and the ‘Global Racial Enemy’ slot this book replaces in the reader’s prior map. — connects to: National security law legally overrides protections against racial profiling of Muslims — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 552; Anti-sharia legislation sought to criminalize all mosque attendance as terrorism