Young progressive Muslims reject colorblind and interfaith responses as insufficient against structural racism
Evidence
And young, progressive Muslims are taking note. They are joining dissident movements that view the American government as an imperialistic and racist power. For them, get out the vote campaigns grounded in a neoliberal colorblind paradigm fail to address the structural causes socially constructing and oppressing the Racial Muslim. The interfaith approach falls short by dealing only with the symptoms of anti-Muslim racism. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1029
Categorization
- XREF: Mirrors the reader’s running theme of institutions treating symptoms rather than root causes (anti-noise devices, anti-noise campaigns in the silence project). — connects to: Anti-Muslim racism denies individuality by marking all Muslims as a blameworthy collective
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 1029