Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
The shape of Islamophobia bends but its baselines remain the same, shifting in trajectory to take on new targets as the stages and stakes change.
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The target is no longer the Muslim who might threaten the state from outside its institutions, but the Muslim who might enter those institutions and exercise power over them.
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China argues that government management of Uyghur culture is necessary to protect it from religious extremism. In fact the biggest threats to Uyghur heritage and culture are the policies of the Chinese government itself.
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While the Uyghur crisis doesn’t revolve solely around Islamic identity and practice, the category “religion” provides an organizing framework that the People’s Republic of China utilizes to justify its continued oppression of the community.
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