White victims receive instant humanity denied to Arab and Muslim victims

Evidence

When identified as Muslims, whether through the hijab or a Muslim name, the racial classification as white stops applying to Syrians, Lebanese, and Iraqi Americans. Whiteness comes with certain benefits, like being able to walk into a store without being stared at, monitored, or verbally harassed; boarding a flight in the airport without having your body searched several times, and not having to monitor what you say out of fear that someone will report you to law enforcement. It affords individuals these tangible material and social benefits (Harris 1993). Arabs who are Muslim are being ejected from the racial classification of white because their religious identity marks them as the other, and South Asian Muslims are simultaneously losing their footing as honorary whites. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 662 (#expands, via linked claim)

These experiences also clearly demonstrate how the hijab mitigates the privileges that whiteness affords. White women lose their privilege of whiteness when they wear the hijab. The white women’s experiences are no different from the Pakistani and Indian women who also wear the hijab. They too are marked as potentially Arab. The hijab becomes a racializing agent, and those who wear it are told to “go back home” by their fellow private citizens, which denies them the ability to claim their national identity. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 261 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Converting to Islam or wearing the hijab causes loss of whiteness privileges — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 261; Arabs classified as white lose that status upon wearing the hijab — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 201; Dehumanization causes perpetrators to perceive victims as nonhuman and therefore not entitled to moral obligation — Dehumanization increases instrumental violence, but not moral violence (+8 more)

Related

• Arabs classified as white lose that status upon wearing the hijab (similarity 0.86)
• Converting to Islam or wearing the hijab causes loss of whiteness privileges (similarity 0.85)
• Muslim identity ejects Arabs from whiteness and strips them of its material benefits (similarity 0.85)
• Categorical whiteness excludes Arabs and Muslims from the benefits of racial remedy in America (similarity 0.85)
• Wearing the hijab is read as surrendering whiteness and citizenship standing (similarity 0.84)
• Wearing the hijab strips Arab women of their perceived whiteness (similarity 0.83)
• Arabs were classified white for citizenship so they could be distinguished from ineligible Asians (similarity 0.83)
• The hijab overrides whiteness as a racializing agent on any wearer. (similarity 0.82)
• Muslim identity ejects Arab Americans from legal whiteness and its social benefits. (similarity 0.82)
• Muslim Arabs move away from whiteness regardless of actual skin tone (similarity 0.82)
• Arabs gained whiteness-status in 1943 while Muslims generally remained excluded because Islam signified non-whiteness. (similarity 0.81)
• Lighter skin and Westernized names let some Muslims pass as white (similarity 0.81)
• A white non-Muslim can be forced into the Muslim’s demonological position (similarity 0.81)
• Hijab converts white-passing women into racialized outsiders (similarity 0.81)
• The hijab functions like skin tone by marking bodies as racial others (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Muslim identity ejects Arabs from whiteness and strips them of its material benefits #expands (0.75) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 662
• Converting to Islam or wearing the hijab causes loss of whiteness privileges #expands (0.70) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 261
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance #expands (0.65) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 29
• Arabs classified as white lose that status upon wearing the hijab #expands (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 201
• Muslim names alone can racialize phenotypically white people #expands (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 91
• Wearing the hijab strips Arab women of their perceived whiteness #expands (0.60) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 145
• Anti-Muslim jokes racialize Muslim bodies and mark them as untrusted #expands (0.60)
• Refusing to name white nationalists while condemning Muslims weaponizes Islamophobia #exemplifies (0.55) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 229
• Preemptive prosecution is applied to Muslims but not to armed white militias #exemplifies (0.55) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 488
• Lighter skin and Westernized names let some Muslims pass as white #exemplifies (0.50)