Over 5 percent of America’s doctors are now Muslim, and that number grows year after year. From celebrity MDs like Dr. Mehmet Oz to the hardworking doctors at their local community health centers during the 2020 COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, Muslim healthcare providers from coast to coast are busy curing Americans’ cancers, their acne breakouts, and everything in between. But Americans don’t mean these Muslims.

SEED: Could develop into an article about the gap between Muslims' integral professional role in American life and their cultural exclusion from the imagined American identity.

SEED: Potential article angle: the gap between Americans' reliance on Muslim healthcare providers and the prejudice those providers face — a story about structural contradiction in American healthcare.

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 23