Book contents
- Islamophobia and the Law
- Islamophobia and the Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Note on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Race and Citizenship
- Part II The Politics of Islamophobia in the Courts
- Part III Islamophobia in Criminal Law and National Security Law
- Part IV Law, Society, and Islamophobia
- 11 Property Lawfare: Historical Racism and Present Islamophobia in Anti-Mosque Activism
- 12 “Liberty and Death”
- 13 The Gender of Islamophobia
- 14 Coercive Assimilationism and Muslim Women’s Identity Performance in the Workplace
- Index
12 - “Liberty and Death”
from Part IV - Law, Society, and Islamophobia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2020
- Islamophobia and the Law
- Islamophobia and the Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Note on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Race and Citizenship
- Part II The Politics of Islamophobia in the Courts
- Part III Islamophobia in Criminal Law and National Security Law
- Part IV Law, Society, and Islamophobia
- 11 Property Lawfare: Historical Racism and Present Islamophobia in Anti-Mosque Activism
- 12 “Liberty and Death”
- 13 The Gender of Islamophobia
- 14 Coercive Assimilationism and Muslim Women’s Identity Performance in the Workplace
- Index
Summary
What factors allow a system of law to provide civil protections and liberties for some, but deprivation and death for others?1 This question is significant for the protection of all civil liberties, since the erosion of one American’s civil liberties is a threat to civil liberties nationally. In response, I argue that segregation sustains and exacerbates Islamophobia, because the two are mutually constitutive. The claims and evidence that follow substantiate the argument by demonstrating that the law can work in concert with the state to legally impose segregation – in this case the segregation of Muslim Americans following the September 11 terror attacks. In fact, there is quite a long legacy of legally imposed segregation in the United States, mostly levied against minorities, which culminated into the iconic civil rights struggle of the 1960s.
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- Islamophobia and the Law , pp. 230 - 248Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020