Muslim Americans like Nora, driven by fear to conform, cover, or conceal their Muslim identity, may diminish the prospect of suspicion from the state or backlash from bigots, but in doing so they are complicit in supporting the very mission Islamophobia aims to advance—eroding and eliminating every manifestation of Islam, until it is gone from America altogether.

DEFINE: The passage reframes concealment of identity not as protective but as participation in the very erasure the prejudice seeks.

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 540