Azadeh Shahshahani

Human rights lawyer • Legal & Advocacy Director @ProjectSouth • Past president @NLGNews • Words in @Guardian @thenation & elsewhere • legal@projectsouth.org

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Recommended by Azadeh Shahshahani

"The Racial Muslim" masterfully weaves history, politics, and law to produce a cogent explanation of why religious freedom is not fully extended to Muslims in the U.S. This book by @saharazizlaw is a must read! https://t.co/OUzKSTxOJ6 (from X)

Why does a country with religious liberty enmeshed in its legal and social structures produce such overt prejudice and discrimination against Muslims? Sahar Aziz’s groundbreaking book demonstrates how race and religion intersect to create what she calls the Racial Muslim. Comparing discrimination against immigrant Muslims with the prejudicial treatment of Jews, Catholics, Mormons, and African American Muslims during the twentieth century, Aziz explores the gap between America’s aspiration for and fulfillment of religious freedom. With America’s demographics rapidly changing from a majority white Protestant nation to a multiracial, multireligious society, this book is an in dispensable read for understanding how our past continues to shape our present—to the detriment of our nation’s future.