Tag: Muslim Ban

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 “The Curious Case of the Racial Muslim [EU Scream]”
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The U.S. census sees Middle Eastern and North African people as white. Many don’t [NPR]

The complicated relationship many people with MENA origins have with whiteness is entangled with a naturalization system in the U.S. that, until 1952, imposed racial restrictions on which immigrants could become citizens. First arriving in large numbers in the late 1800s, the earliest generations of immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa saw whiteness as the path towards claiming full rights in their new country. There were several court cases where Syrian immigrants emphasized their Christianity because it was considered a European religion and, therefore, a marker of whiteness,… Continue reading “The U.S. census sees Middle Eastern and North African people as white. Many don’t [NPR]”
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Trump, Anti-Muslim Rhetoric, and the Supreme Court [Good Law, Bad Law Podcast]

Sahar Aziz speaks with attorney Aaron Freiwald on an important subject that touches on many aspects of contemporary politics from immigration to civil rights to discrimination to politics and just how we live as Americans in this country. Specifically, she discusses how Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric informs his anti-Muslim policies, including the issuance of the Muslim Ban in January 2017. To listen to the interview, click here.… Continue reading “Trump, Anti-Muslim Rhetoric, and the Supreme Court [Good Law, Bad Law Podcast]”
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Travel Ban Upheld: What Happens Now? [NPR]

On January 27th, 2017, President Trump signed Executive Order 1-3-7-6-9 — officially named “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.” And protests erupted around the country. No refugees allowed into the United States for 120 days. No Syrian refugees indefinitely. And no one from seven overwhelmingly Muslim countries allowed to enter the country for 90 days. Those countries were Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. That first “travel ban” as it came to be known was struck down by the court system almost immediately… Continue reading “Travel Ban Upheld: What Happens Now? [NPR]”
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Trump’s Immigrant Ban Part of a Long, Sad Tradition [Fox News]

For all of his anti-establishment rhetoric, President Trump’s stance toward immigrants and Muslims is more of the same. Orientalism and Manifest Destiny have long animated American foreign policy and domestic treatment of its racial and religious minorities. Trump’s executive orders on Friday, effectively barring immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries, harks back to an era when holy wars were the currency for mass mobilization by the ruler. In the eleventh century, for example, Pope Urban II called on his people to defend the Byzantine Empire from encroaching Muslim armies. What became… Continue reading “Trump’s Immigrant Ban Part of a Long, Sad Tradition [Fox News]”
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