(ThyBlackMan.com) On January 27, President Trump instituted his promised “Muslim ban,” an executive order prohibiting all non-citizens from 7 majority Muslim countries—Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and Syria—from entering the United States. It is important to note that this list was based off of President Obama’s 2015 Visa Waiver Improvement Program and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act, which limited Visa waivers for anyone coming from the aforementioned countries, designated as “areas of concern.”
This Islamophobia was able to so easily evolve from liberal to conservative president because it is integral to the anti-Black structure of this society that both 
maintained. The equivalence between “Muslim,” “Brown,” and “terrorist” allows for imperialist wars abroad, but it also constructs a false reality disqualifying the black body from being a target of Islamophobic policies. The American empire benefits from this racial definition as it further justifies both its “War on Terror” while at the same time reinforcing that Black lives do not matter, even within Muslim spaces.
By understanding Islamophobia to be anti-Black, we can begin to unpack the very real erasure of the Black Muslim. This erasure is evident in the ways progressives and others protest against the “Muslim ban,” as well as in American Muslim discourse intra-communally. The separation of “Muslim” from “Black” is aided by anti-Black sentiment present in liberal spaces, and it is embraced by non-Black Muslims because it allows them to appeal to whiteness.
By embracing this separation, non-Black Muslims are able to place their bodies as an antithesis to Black ones. In returning to the mosques tomorrow, Black Muslims will be abused and patronized for this very reason. Muslim issues will be separated from Black issues and Black Muslims will be called upon for our undying solidarity and labor. Any attempt to combat Islamophobia without combating this separation not only means Black Muslims will still be in an abusive relationship with our white, Arab and Asian coreligionists, but also that Islamophobic violence will continue to build upon the separation between “Muslim” and “Black.”
Finish story here;
http://racebaitr.com/2017/02/01/we-must-stop-de-centering-black-muslims/