MSU's Uddin on Muslim religious practices in Texas

MSU Law professor Asma Uddin's article examines how political rhetoric and state-level policy in Texas increasingly frame everyday Muslim religious practices—such as prayer, modest dress, and community gatherings—as political threats or inherently subversive activities. Uddin discusses how post-9/11 suspicions have hardened into systemic assumptions where expressions of Islamic faith are treated with hostility by elected officials. The piece argues that recharacterizing routine religious observance as a political threat undermines religious freedom, violates constitutional protections for religious minorities, and sets a dangerous precedent for civil liberties in the United States.

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