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NJ Muslim Mayor Who Was Denied White House Entry [Gothamist]

A Muslim mayor in New Jersey is calling for an end to the U.S. government’s terror watch lists after he was barred from a celebration at the White House. Mohamed Khairullah — in his fifth term as Prospect Park’s mayor, and first elected to the borough’s council in 2001 — was on his way to an Eid al-Fitr celebration at the White House on Monday when he was told the Secret Service would not allow him to attend. Khairullah, a well-known Muslim leader in New Jersey, said at a Tuesday… Continue reading

POMEPS Podcast Features “The Racial Muslim” [George Washington University]

While the so-called “Global War on Terror” may no longer be the dominant narrative animating U.S. foreign policy, the long term effects of the past two decades continue to shape perceptions of Muslims and Islam in America. In the George Washington University Project on Middle East Politics (POMEPS) podcast, Marc Lynch hosts Sahar Aziz in a conversation about the broader implications of the racialization of religion, as set forth in her book The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom. Click here to listen, starting at minute 34:55. POMEPS … Continue reading

Fireside Chat on The Racial Muslim with Deb Amos [Rutgers]

Internationally renowned journalist and NPR correspondent Deb Amos joined Professor Sahar Aziz at Rutgers University-Newark for a fireside chat about immigration, race, Islamophobia, and religious pluralism. Watch their conversation here and below. For a more in-depth analysis, read The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom.… Continue reading

Hamline, Free Speech, and Academic Freedom [Eagleton Institute]

In the podcast This Moment in Democracy, Professor Saladin Ambar and Rutgers Law Professor Sahar Aziz discuss the controversy happening at Hamline University, as well as current issues higher education is facing regarding free speech on campus, academic freedom, and the adjunctification of university faculty. To listen to the podcast, click here.… Continue reading

The Hamline Controversy and the Real Threat to Academic Freedom [Al Jazeera]

Over the past few weeks, there has been much debate about academic freedom in the United States. It was sparked by the decision of Hamline University not to renew the contract of an adjunct professor who showed a famous 14th-century Persian painting of the Prophet Muhammad and Angel Gabriel in her art history class. The decision was made following the complaint of a Muslim student who felt offended. “We now find ourselves at the heart of a purported standoff between academic freedom and equity.” These words by Hamline University President Fayneese… Continue reading

Truth and Lies: The Informant [ABC]

Professor Sahar Aziz was a featured expert in season two of the ABC podcast “Truth and Lies: The Informant.” In 2016, a group of men in rural Kansas started meeting in secret. They spent months forming a militia group and plotting what would’ve been one of the worst domestic terror attacks in U.S. history — if it hadn’t been stopped. “Truth and Lies: The Informant” tells the remarkable story of an ordinary man who infiltrated this dangerous group as an FBI informant and risked his life… Continue reading

Confronting Liberal Islamophobia [ACS]

Islamophobia, like other systems of bias, operates in both liberal and conservative spaces in American society, albeit in different ways. Islamophobia by conservatives is easily identifiable through hateful speech, hate crimes and support for state national security and immigration practices targeting Muslims. The absence of such observable factors in liberal circles, however, does not make Islamophobia any less of a problem. To the contrary, the stealth of liberal Islamophobia arguably makes it more insidious. Liberals proudly boast their support for multiculturalism and pluralism, which purportedly includes Muslims. Their discourse follows… Continue reading

The Curious Case of the Racial Muslim [EU Scream]

Legal scholar Sahar Aziz says people who identify as Muslim are often perceived in racial terms, like Black and Brown people, in White-dominated societies. That makes Muslims on both sides of the Atlantic the subject of similar forms of racism. She also says protecting observant Muslims in Europe may be more difficult than in the United States, where religious observance is more commonplace. In this episode: Sahar Aziz in conversation with the journalist and think tanker Shada Islam. Listen to the podcast here. Purchase your copy of the… Continue reading

Twentieth Anniversary of 9/11 Essays [Mich. J. Race & Law]

The Michigan Journal of Race and the Law published a special volume on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that featured articles by leading scholars on national security, immigration, criminal law, and race. Sahar Aziz’s article State Sponsored Radicalization conducts a comprehensive review of the literature that rebukes the dominant (fallacious) government narrative about ‘radicalization’ to terrorism. Not only are there no empirically based criteria for predicting who is more likely to engage in politically motivated violence, but increased religiosity of Muslims has no correlation to terrorist tendencies. And… Continue reading

National Conference on Race and Ethnicity 2022 [NCORE]

Sahar Aziz presented her groundbreaking book The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom at the 2022 Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Portland, Oregon. Engaging with an audience of university administrators, faculty and students committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, Professor Aziz explained the historical and contemporary factors contributing to the racialization of Muslim identity, and consequent civil rights violations. Comparing discrimination against immigrant Muslims with the prejudicial treatment of Jews, Catholics, Mormons, and African American Muslims during the twentieth century, Professor Aziz explored the gap between… Continue reading

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