Jamal Awil

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Restrictions on Palestine advocacy can constitute religious profiling of Muslims. [definitional]

These restrictions raise an important question, one articulated by scholar Liz Fekete: "Are we seeing a new form of religious profiling? A new offence: 'Demonstrating for Palestine while Muslim'?"

QUESTION: The framing 'Demonstrating for Palestine while Muslim' opens an important question about how speech restrictions intersect with religious identity — worth exploring further in context.

Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Intro…, loc. 583