Although Black and Muslim identities overlap intimately in the demographics of France, the United States, and places beyond and in between, anti-Blackness and Islamophobia are distinct branches of bigotry. Yet young Desi Maher's trenchant observation highlights the way in which both existences are ascribed deviance on account of their racialized identities. In the same fashion that law enforcement, and the judicial and carceral institutions that orbit and abet it, assign criminalized threat to Blackness, the War on Terror and its central purveyors assign suspicion of terrorism to Muslim bodies.

XREF: Parallels Western state mechanisms: criminalization of Blackness via carceral systems and suspicion of terrorism assigned to Muslim bodies by the War on Terror.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 1119