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Whose Interests Has Islam Disturbed?: Equal Citizenship, Passive Costs, and the Unfinished Test of Belonging - Softcover

Ma, Lin

 
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Synopsis

Whose Interests Has Islam Disturbed? asks a difficult but practical question: when Muslims seek equal standing as neighbours, workers, voters, and citizens, why can belonging still remain conditional?

Focusing on everyday institutions rather than conspiracy, Ma Lin examines how suspicion can become embedded in employment, housing, education, media, borders, security systems, public services, and political life. The book develops three connected ideas-the interest-translation chain, the moving finish line, and passive cost-to explain how temporary suspicion can become a durable burden of extra proof, waiting, explanation, and inherited doubt.

Drawing on European legal frameworks, official reports, public data, and contemporary case studies, the book distinguishes legitimate criticism and genuine security concerns from collective suspicion based on identity. It asks who gains authority, resources, attention, or political advantage when fear persists, while carefully separating institutional benefit from claims of deliberate manufacture.

Written as a Popular Edition for general readers, the book argues for a completed form of equal citizenship: individual responsibility, evidence-based security, equal access to ordinary institutions, reviewable public power, and a genuine route out of suspicion.

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About the Author

Ma Lin is an independent researcher based in Putrajaya, Malaysia. His work focuses on artificial intelligence, human agency, philosophy, ethics, and the relationship between technological systems and human judgment. His research examines how increasingly capable artificial intelligence can extend human abilities while also creating new forms of cognitive dependence. When Assistance Becomes Substitution develops this concern through the concept of cognitive displacement and explores the conditions under which human judgment, responsibility, and intellectual independence can be preserved in an age of generative AI.

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