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Muslims are not a race

By: Sude Guvendik, Staff Writer Content warning: mentions of Islamophobia and racism.  We must break through the notion that all forms of prejudice are equal. This idea isn’t just misguided; it’s a deliberate act of intellectual dishonesty. Especially with increasing Islamophobic incidents, a dehumanization media campaign, and the spread of anti-Palestinian racism and anti-Muslim bigotry, we should recognize the difference between racism and Islamophobia. Muslims are not a race, and the attempt to pigeonhole Islamophobia as just racism obscures the complex motivations behind this unique form of bias. One of the main issues with framing Islamophobia as racism is it…

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