{"id":510,"date":"2017-04-12T09:56:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T13:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=510"},"modified":"2017-04-12T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T19:32:09","slug":"law-professor-writes-of-islamaphobias-effects-on-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2017\/04\/12\/law-professor-writes-of-islamaphobias-effects-on-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Law professor writes of Islamaphobia&#8217;s effects on Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-511\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/04\/beydoun.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/04\/beydoun.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/04\/beydoun.jpg?resize=133%2C200&amp;ssl=1 133w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/04\/beydoun.jpg?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Associate Professor of Law Khaled A. Bedouin is a scholar of Critical Race Theory and examines Islamophobia from a legal, race-based perspective.<\/p>\n<p>His work examining the intersection of race, religion and citizenship has been featured in top law journals.<\/p>\n<p>On March 30, Beydoun published a piece looking at the effects on Muslims of the rise in Islamaphobia in the United States in recent months in the Guardian, a well-respected&nbsp;independent international news source.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, in part &#8220;The decision to act as non-Muslim as possible is an emergent phenomenon in Trump\u2019s America. But it is not an entirely new one. The hostility toward Muslims after the 9\/11 terror attacks motivated many Muslims to underperform, conform or conceal their Muslim identities, and the protracted war on terror extended the phenomenon well into the Obama administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read the entire piece, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/mar\/30\/being-muslim-under-trump-risky-many-hiding-identity?CMP=share_btn_fb\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Law Khaled A. Bedouin is a scholar of Critical Race Theory and examines Islamophobia from a legal, race-based perspective. His work examining the intersection of race, religion and citizenship has been featured in top law journals. On March 30, Beydoun published a piece looking at the effects &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/04\/beydoun.jpg?fit=250%2C375&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Kcng-8e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}