The Muslim subject is placed outside law as a homo sacer.

Evidence

Here we reach the dark heart of modern Islamophobia as a fully implemented system of discrimination in that it is the modern-day Muslim subject, not only in the battleground countries of the war on terror but also in the West, who becomes the subject placed outside the law and thus may be imprisoned or killed with impunity—the homo sacer in Giorgio Agamben’s well-known phrase. For all those Western declarations of concern for the rights of women, children, and minorities in the spaces of the East, security always outweighs rights—or perhaps we should say that rights are reinterpreted selectively in the interests of national security. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 320

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Agamben’s homo sacer and connects it to the Muslim subject — a precise term for the reader’s argument that fiction contests this outsiding.
• XREF: Directly applicable to Changez in The Reluctant Fundamentalist, whose American citizenship and legal protections are hollowed after 9/11 — the homo sacer status is exactly his position. — connects to: The figure of the Muslim reduces a life to unworthy-of-witness death — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 911
• ADDENDUM: The ‘security outweighs rights’ logic parallels the state-violence mechanism in sacrifice contexts — both show how exceptionalist logics justify selective dehumanization.