The Bush administration criminalized a mandatory Islamic religious practice by shutting down Muslim charities

Evidence

Charity is one of the five pillars of Islam, a religious obligation for all Muslims, yet after 9/11 the Bush administration shut down virtually all Muslim charitable organizations operating in the United States and froze their assets, allegedly to prevent the flow of money to “terrorists.” In doing so, it equated this fundamental aspect of the Islamic faith with aiding the “enemies” of the United States. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 465

Categorization

• SEED: Material support statutes policing a core religious duty is a concrete, damning detail usable in an article on how counterterrorism law criminalizes religious observance.
• XREF: connects to: The Bush administration’s Iraq war justifications rested on three anti-Muslim stereotypes — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 276; Islamophobia persisted equally under Obama and Bush administrations. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 311; FBI required mosques to preach a state-sanctioned version of Islam (+4 more)