White America tolerated Muslim Americans only while they stayed politically docile

Evidence

In sum, this Muslim American was willing to eschew any claims to constitutional rights, to support evangelical Christianity, to buoy white business interests in Africa, to accept white prejudices against blacks, and most importantly, to leave the country. As long as Muslim Americans were willing to behave in this manner, there was no conflict between them and the state. But when Muslim Americans began to agitate for equal rights, to oppose US foreign policy, and to reject racial apartheid, they became downright dangerous. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 374

Categorization

• XREF: This parallel to the standing-directive interest in small acts of decorum toward corpses and docility contrasts with Beydoun’s legal analysis of Islamophobia; connects to the reader’s guiding question about relocating the problem from ‘them’ to ‘us’ - here the ‘us’ is shown demanding passivity.