In "Islamism and Its African American Muslim Critics," historian Edward E. Curtis reflects on this critical impasse, when immigration quotas were dissolved and immigrant Muslims came to the United States in large numbers: "As negative portrayals in the mainstream press and criticism from black leaders increased, more and more Muslims in the United States joined to condemn, dispute, and reject the teachings of Elijah Muhammad and the NOI. Their criticism of the NOI was a public performance of Muslim identity that expressed the growing cultural power of foreign and immigrant Muslims." … Although the Nation of Islam played a key role in fighting for legislation dissolving restrictive immigration quotas, thereby enabling non-black Muslims to come to the United States, immigrant Muslims swiftly turned their back on black Muslims in favor of placating the state that had restricted their entry for nearly two centuries.

XREF: Connects to broader patterns of intra-community racial politics and how marginalized groups distance themselves from other marginalized groups for state acceptance.

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 441