Non-Black Muslims in the United States, like myself, have to understand that our everyday experiences of Islamophobia today are intimately linked with the racism that our Black brothers and sisters have been experiencing for centuries.
To understand this connection, we have to first recognize how racial discrimination operates and how marginalization is an effect of institutional practices.
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By Shenila Khoja-Moolji for HuffingtonPost. Shenila is a Research Fellow, Teachers College, Columbia University; Education Affiliate, Religious Literacy Project, Harvard University.
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