While this legislation conflicts with the First Amendment's principle of separating church and state and preventing the states from meddling in the religious affairs of their citizenry, the ferocity of Islamophobia in America today, at both the federal and state levels, reveals that there is always an Islamophobic exception: violating core constitutional principles is deemed justifiable or permissible as long as the target is Islam or Muslims.

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 310