Western states fund religious separatism over redistributive justice claims

Evidence

Western states have been willing to foster separatist religious enclaves providing such groups restrict their claims to culture. In Britain, the anti-racist basis to multiculturalism (responding to specific group claims of injustice) lost ground as the state became willing to respond more to cultural demands for separate spaces than to demands that required redistribution. In France, the French government concurred with the creation of the French Muslim Council, made up of representatives of mosques: the larger the mosque (measured in square footage), the greater the number of representatives, a regulation that facilitated the domination of mosques funded by the Gulf states. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 391

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the law-merchant and social-capital material about how institutions and state responses to group claims shape outcomes. — connects to: The religion-secular boundary is a construct serving Western state power — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 685
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: the French mosque square-footage rule as a measurable proxy mechanism for state co-opting of religious hierarchies.