When Islam itself is deemed the problem, assimilation demands its excision.

Evidence

But what is required of Muslims upon whom demands for assimilation are made when the problem is Islam? That is to say, how can one become an assimilated Muslim when the very thing that makes one a Muslim is rendered the problem to be excised from the person? … Thus, hijabs and beards become examples of not just the failure to adequately assimilate, but a marker of a stubborn clinging to foreign-ness and a rejection of all that America stands for (in their view). — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 296

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: When believers cannot be visually identified, lawmakers criminalize the religion wholesale.; Once Islam itself is the problem, Muslims are permanently unassimilable. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 252; Refusing assimilation to Muslims would cause them to forge their own nation (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Assimilation demands on Muslims require abandoning Islam itself, not just privatizing it #corroborates (0.95) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 296
• Attempting to homogenize the Muslim diaspora is itself a tactic of Islamophobia #corroborates (0.85) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 61
• Once sharia is problematized the whole Muslim identity becomes delegitimized #corroborates (0.85)
• Recourse to Muslim culture masks Islamophobia while homogenizing all Muslims #corroborates (0.82) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 172
• Western desire to domesticate Muslim cultures is marked by Islamophobic estrangement. #corroborates (0.78) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 243
• Retaining the term Islamophobia centers hostility on Islam itself. #qualifies (0.75) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 615
• Refusing assimilation to Muslims would cause them to forge their own nation #qualifies (0.72)
• Islamophobia requires an acknowledged Muslim or Islamic element to be identified. #corroborates (0.70) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 911