Violence legitimated by religious claims is a racialized governing technology.

Evidence

Regimes that legitimate domination, supremacy converted to ethnic privileges, and exclusion on the basis of sacralized politics are racialized systems. Governmentality performing sacralized racialities operates through various forms of violence that are legitimated on the basis of religious claims and maintains a system of ethnic control or expansion. The most dangerous forms of violence are those embedded in biopolitical and necropolitical arithmetic (Mbembe 2003) and statistics that “count” and “calculate” the sacred against “disposable” Others, defining those perceived as tolerated inhabitants, dangerous Others, or a demographic threat. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 137

Categorization

• DEFINE: Useful framing concept: ‘sacralized racialities’ as governmentality that counts lives through a sacred/disposable arithmetic.
• XREF: connects to: Racism is a technology that legitimizes state killing under biopower. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 39; Muslims are racialized by reframing their religion as a violent ideology.; Religion gets racialized by ascribing inherited biological traits to a faith community — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 257 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Racism is a technology that legitimizes state killing under biopower. #corroborates (0.85) — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 39
• Radicalization theories racialize Muslims by presuming Islam drives them to violence #exemplifies (0.82) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 630
• Muslims are racialized by reframing their religion as a violent ideology. #exemplifies (0.80)
• Being called ”terrorist” in violence racializes the Muslim independent of actual religiosity. #corroborates (0.78)
• Cultural racism explains Muslim violence through religion rather than lived circumstances #exemplifies (0.78) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 621
• Religion gets racialized by ascribing inherited biological traits to a faith community #expands (0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 257
• Cultural and religious practices become racialized markers treated as inherent traits. #corroborates (0.75) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 69
• Citizenship itself is racialized, protecting some citizens while criminalizing Muslim Americans. #expands (0.75)
• Religion operates as a fluid category that racializes groups #expands (0.74) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1067
• Race operates as sacred violence purchasing order through scapegoats #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1349
• Racialized regimes license privatized citizen violence against targeted groups. #exemplifies (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1826
• Religious identity can become racialized by imputing biological and cultural inferiority #expands (0.72) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 712