The Politics of Muslims in America

Jalalzai, Farida

doi:10.1017/s1755048309000194

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“…Gender could also play an important role when assessing the political engagement of Muslims . Wearing the headscarf, or hijab, could expose women to greater scrutiny, and Muslim women may be less involved in politics than men due largely to conservative notions of women's proper role within the household and the community (Jalalzai, ). However, recent empirical studies have not found any significant differences between the political participation of Muslim men and women in the United States (Ayers & Hofstetter, ; Dana, Barreto, & Oskooii, ; Jamal, ).…”

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How Discrimination Impacts Sociopolitical Behavior: A Multidimensional Perspective

Oskooii

2015

Political Psychology

107

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The conventional wisdom regarding the impact of discrimination on political behavior is that the perception of prejudiced treatment motivates individuals to take political action. This study challenges this common conception by demonstrating that the source of discrimination can play a significant role in whether perceived or experienced injustice leads to activism or withdrawal from sociopolitical life. Drawing from political science and social psychology literature, this study provides a new perspective on the potential effects of discrimination on a relatively new marginalized group in the United States. Specifically, an important distinction is drawn between political (systematic) and societal (interpersonal) discrimination in analyzing the sociopolitical behavior of American Muslims in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The results will hopefully encourage scholars to take a deeper look at the nexus between discrimination and democratic engagement, which is an important, complex, multidimensional, and understudied topic.

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How Discrimination Impacts Sociopolitical Behavior: A Multidimensional Perspective

Oskooii

2015

Political Psychology

107

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“…Second, in addition to building on the relative dearth of research American Muslims, this study highlights the disparate ways in which key determinants influence political behavior within this community's subgroups. Whether due to the difficulty in obtaining a sizeable sample from this relatively small population (Patterson, Gasim, and Choi 2011; Djupe and Calfano 2012), 2 or simply an implicit decision to limit the analysis to inferences about the sample as a whole (Ayers and Hofstetter 2008; Jalalzai 2009), studies of American Muslim political attitudes and behavior conditioned on key demographic distinctions is, not surprisingly, quite rare (see below for exceptions to this general rule). Altogether absent, however, is a comprehensive assessment of the differential effects attendant to these distinctions.…”

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American Muslim Political Participation: Between Diversity and Cohesion

Chouhoud

Barreto

Dana

2019

Politics and Religion

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American Muslims’ increased societal salience has led to greater scrutiny of their political and social attitudes. Yet, systematic analyses of this population remain rare and tend to aggregate findings at a level that masks the community's diverse backgrounds and experiences. As a partial corrective, our paper provides a comprehensive demographic analysis of American Muslim political participation. Our conclusions, first, complement previous efforts to elaborate the influence of minority status on the core determinants of political participation. Second, they highlight the differential impact of these determinants within key American Muslim demographic subgroups, revealing the moderating effects of denomination, racial or ethnic background, and gender. As scholars and practitioners seek to better understand Muslims in America, our research suggests that there are myriad circumstances when this community's presumed cohesion gives way to meaningfully diverse perspectives and behaviors.

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“…Available studies of Muslim Americans, though few in number, produce results similar to those among non-U.S. Muslims. In studies that include statistical controls for religiosity, high levels of education and income tend to foster more secular, progressive attitudes (Baker and Jamal 2009:155-56), greater religious tolerance (Djupe and Calfano 2012a), and even declining fertility rates (Kulczycki and Lobo 2001), while also channeling energy toward greater political participation (Jalalzai 2009).…”

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