Anti-Muslim violence targets both identity and religious practice [causal]
Being Muslim, in places like China or India, was enough to face the wrath of structural or private Islamophobia, while acting Muslim—freely exercising one's faith in line with one's spiritual beliefs—invited suspicion and scorn in France and everywhere that distinctive French plague of Islamophobia was exported. In New Zealand, on that unholy Friday in 2019 in Christchurch, praying before Allah invited the same murder that befell George Floyd. Fifty-one times over.
XREF: Connects Islamophobia across China, India, France, and New Zealand to a unified global phenomenon, contrasting with George Floyd's death.
Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 1121