Muslim privilege

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Discrimination

General forms

* Age
* Caste
* Class
* Disability
* Education
* Economic
* Employment
* Genetic
* Hair texture
* Height
* Housing
* Language
* Looks
* Race / Ethnicity / Nationality
* Rank
* Sanity
* Sex
* Sexual orientation
* Size
* Skin color
* Species

Specific forms

Social

* Acephobia
* Adultism
* Amatonormativity
* Anti-albinism
* Anti-autism
* Anti-homelessness
* Anti-intellectualism
* Anti-intersex
* Anti-left handedness
* Anti-Masonry
* Antisemitism (Judeophobia)
* Aporophobia
* Audism
* Biphobia
* Clannism
* Cronyism
* Drug use
* Elitism
* Ephebiphobia
* Fatism
* Gerontophobia
* Heteronormativity
* Heterosexism
* HIV/AIDS stigma
* Homophobia
* Leprosy stigma
* Lesbophobia
* Misandry
* Misogyny
* Nepotism
* Pedophobia
* Perpetual foreigner
* Pregnancy
* Reverse
* Sectarianism
* Supremacism
* Black
* White
* Transphobia
* Non-binary
* Transmisogyny
* Vegaphobia
* Xenophobia

Religious

* Ahmadiyya
* Atheism
* Baháʼí Faith
* Buddhism
* Catholicism
* Christianity
* post–Cold War era
* Falun Gong
* Hinduism
* Persecution
* Islam
* Persecution
* Jehovah's Witnesses
* Judaism
* Persecution
* LDS or Mormon
* Neopaganism
* Eastern Orthodox
* Oriental Orthodox
* Protestantism
* Rastafarianism
* Shi'ism
* Sufism
* Zoroastrianism

Ethnic/national

* African
* Albanian
* American
* Arab
* Armenian
* Australian
* Austrian
* British
* Canadian
* Catalan
* Chilean
* Chinese
* Croat
* Dutch
* English
* Estonian
* European
* Filipino
* Finnish
* French
* Georgian
* German
* Greek
* Haitian
* Hazara
* Hindu
* Hispanic
* Hungarian
* Igbo
* Indian
* Indonesian
* Iranian
* Irish
* Israeli
* Italian
* Japanese
* Jewish
* Khmer
* Korean
* Kurdish
* Malay
* Manchu
* Mexican
* Middle Eastern
* Mongolian
* Pakistani
* Pashtun
* Polish
* Portuguese
* Quebec
* Romani
* Romanian
* Russian
* Scottish
* Serb
* Slavic
* Somali
* Soviet
* Tatar
* Thai
* Turkish
* Ukrainian
* Venezuelan
* Vietnamese
* Western

Manifestations

* Animal industrial complex
* Animal testing
* Blood libel
* Blood sport
* Bullying
* Carnism
* Compulsory sterilization
* Counter-jihad
* Cruelty to animals
* Cultural genocide
* Defamation
* Democide
* Disability hate crime
* Dog-whistle politics
* Eliminationism
* Enemy of the people
* Ethnic cleansing
* Ethnic conflict
* Ethnic hatred
* Ethnic joke
* Ethnocide
* Forced conversion
* Freak show
* Gay bashing
* Gendercide
* Genital modification and mutilation
* Genocide
* examples
* Glass ceiling
* Hate crime
* Hate group
* Hate speech
* Homeless dumping
* Indian rolling
* Lavender scare
* LGBT hate crimes
* Lynching
* Meat eating
* Mortgage
* Murder music
* Occupational segregation
* Persecution
* Pogrom
* Purge
* Red Scare
* Religious persecution
* Religious terrorism
* Religious violence
* Religious war
* Scapegoating
* Segregation academy
* Sex-selective abortion
* Slavery
* Slut-shaming
* Trans bashing
* Victimisation
* Violence against women
* White flight
* White power music
* Wife selling
* Witch-hunt

Policies

* Age of candidacy
* Blood purity
* Blood quantum
* Crime of apartheid
* Disabilities
* Catholic
* Jewish
* Ethnocracy
* Ethnopluralism
* Gender pay gap
* Gender roles
* Gerontocracy
* Gerrymandering
* Ghetto benches
* Internment
* Jewish quota
* Jim Crow laws
* Law for Protection of the Nation
* McCarthyism
* MSM blood donation restrictions
* Nonpersons
* Numerus clausus (as religious or racial quota)
* Nuremberg Laws
* One-drop rule
* Racial quota
* Racial steering
* Redlining
* Same-sex marriage (laws and issues prohibiting)
* Segregation
* age
* racial
* religious
* sexual
* Sodomy law
* State atheism
* State religion
* Ugly law
* Voter suppression

Countermeasures

* Affirmative action
* Animal rights
* Anti-discrimination law
* Cultural assimilation
* Cultural pluralism
* Diversity training
* Empowerment
* Feminism
* Fighting Discrimination
* Hate speech laws by country
* Human rights
* Intersex rights
* LGBT rights
* Masculism
* Multiculturalism
* Nonviolence
* Racial integration
* Reappropriation
* Self-determination
* Social integration
* Toleration
* Veganism
* Vegetarianism

Related topics

* Allophilia
* Anthropocentrism
* Anti-cultural, anti-national, and anti-ethnic terms
* Bias
* Christian privilege
* Civil liberties
* Cultural assimilation
* Dehumanization
* Diversity
* Ethnic penalty
* Eugenics
* Internalized oppression
* Intersectionality
* Madonna–whore complex
* Male privilege
* Masculism
* Medical model of disability
* autism
* Multiculturalism
* Net bias
* Neurodiversity
* Oikophobia
* Oppression
* Police brutality
* Political correctness
* Polyculturalism
* Power distance
* Prejudice
* Prisoner abuse
* Racial bias in criminal news
* Racism by country
* Religious intolerance
* Second-generation gender bias
* Snobbery
* Social exclusion
* Social model of disability
* Social stigma
* Stereotype
* threat
* The talk
* White privilege

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Muslim privilege is a social advantage that is bestowed upon Muslims in historically Muslim societies. This arises out of the presumption that Muslim belief is a valid social norm, that leads to the marginalization of the nonreligious and members of other religions through institutional religious discrimination or religious persecution. Muslim privilege can also lead to the neglect of outsiders' cultural heritage and religious practices.

Muslim privilege first emerged during the Early Muslim conquests where non-Muslims were subject to Dhimmi status. In modern times Dhimmi restrictions have been mostly abolished,[1][2]Template:Incomplete citation and most moderate Muslims see them as inappropriate for the modern age.[3] Nonetheless, Muslims continue to have advantages over non-Muslims across the Islamic World. Positions of authority in the government and the military of countries where Islam is the state religion may require those holding them to be Muslim.[4][5] For example, non-Muslims are not allowed to serve as judges (qadi).

Although sometimes actively promoted by Islamofascists and Islamists, Muslim privilege is often unintentionally perpetuated due to implicit biases.

As the Islamic world is large and culturally diverse, Muslim privilege manifests in different ways depending on the location. In Turkey, Muslim privilege (specifically Sunni) often overlaps with white privilege,[6] while in Malaysia it is more linked to anti-Chinese and anti-Hindu sentiment.[7]

Conspiracy theories about Muslim privilege are often used as justifications for Islamophobia across the world, from China[8] to India[9] to Europe.[10][11]

## See also

* Dhimmi
* Dhimmitude
* Jizya
* Islam and other religions

## References

1. ↑ Lapidus, Ira M., A History of Islamic Societies, Cambridge University Press, pp. 599, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139048828.001, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139048828.001, retrieved 2022-06-30
2. ↑ Lapidus (2002), p. 495
3. ↑ "[…] the overwhelming majority of moderate Muslims reject the dhimma system as ahistorical, in the sense that it is inappropriate for the age of nation-states and democracies." Abou El Fadl, Khaled (23 January 2007). The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists. HarperOne. p. 214. ISBN 978-0061189036.
4. ↑ "2019 Report on International Religious Freedom: Iraq". https://www.state.gov/reports/2019-report-on-international-religious-freedom/iraq/.
5. ↑ "2019 Report on International Religious Freedom: Iran". https://www.state.gov/reports/2019-report-on-international-religious-freedom/iran/.
6. ↑ Protner, Beja (2018-10-20). "The limits of an 'open mind': state violence, Turkification, and complicity in the Turkish–Kurdish conflict". Turkish Studies 19 (5): 671–696. doi:10.1080/14683849.2018.1514494. ISSN 1468-3849. https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2018.1514494.
7. ↑ Hardy, Kenneth V.; Bobes, Toby (2016-06-10) (in en). Culturally Sensitive Supervision and Training: Diverse Perspectives and Practical Applications. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-29988-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=Y7pTDAAAQBAJ&dq="Muslim+privilege"&pg=PT153.
8. ↑ Diandian Guo. ""Muslim-Only" Shower Cabins Trigger Complaints About Muslim Privilege" (in en-US). https://www.whatsonweibo.com/muslim-shower-cabins-trigger-complaints-muslim-privilege/.
9. ↑ Roy, Abhik (2004-11-01). "The construction and scapegoating of Muslims as the "other" in Hindu nationalist rhetoric". Southern Communication Journal 69 (4): 320–332. doi:10.1080/10417940409373303. ISSN 1041-794X. https://doi.org/10.1080/10417940409373303.
10. ↑ Lee, Benjamin (October 2016). "Why we fight: Understanding the counter-jihad movement". Religion Compass 10 (10): 257–265. doi:10.1111/rec3.12208. https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/80734/2/main_document_revised.pdf.
11. ↑ Fekete, Liz (2012). "The Muslim conspiracy theory and the Oslo massacre". Race & Class 53 (3): 30–47. doi:10.1177/0306396811425984.

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