am reading “casting out: the eviction of muslims from western law and politics” by sherene razack.
‘The War on Terror has gripped the Western world with internally discriminatory laws and policies, ranging from the denial of habeas corpus rights to restrictions on wearing hijab in public spaces. Sherene Razack’s new monograph demonstrates, however, that much more than discrimination is at work. Casting Out highlights how political community is being reconfigured through the socio-legal abandonment of “Muslim-looking” people who increasingly lack “the right to have rights.” Central to Razack’s analysis is Hannah Arendt’s concept of race thinking, a world view that differentiates between two orders of humanity, promoting the exclusion of one for the “survival” of the other. Today this thinking circulates as a popular narrative that sees the West as besieged by a Muslim threat. Razack draws on the work of Giorgio Agamben, showing how the resultant exclusion of Muslim peoples gives rise to the “camp”—a state of exception wherein the rule of law, that is, the rules of political community, do not apply.’ More here.