US courts denied citizenship to Muslims and even Christians presumed Muslim until 1944.

Evidence

For example, until 1944, American courts denied citizenship to those perceived or feared to be Muslim or of Muslim ancestry, some of whom were Christians. — Goleen Samari, Islamophobia and Public Health in the…, 11

Categorization

• CANDY: A striking, tweetable detail: the courts’ racialized fear of Muslim identity was so strong it swept up Christians.
• XREF: Connects to the author’s own ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ theme of perceived identity markers overriding actual identity.

Related

• Muslims were barred from US citizenship from 1790 to 1944 (similarity 0.81)
• Citizenship in America has historically been tied to whiteness and Christianity (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia hits hardest those with the weakest legal hold on America (similarity 0.79)
• Racial Muslims are denied American national identity despite citizenship or birth in the US. (similarity 0.79)
• Religious identity, once racialized, bars citizens from full dignitary benefits (similarity 0.79)
• Early-twentieth-century US citizenship cases racialized Syrians as Muslim foreign threats. (similarity 0.78)