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.
