This article traces the development over the last decades in France of anti-Muslim racism and discrimination within professional and organisational fields. It shows how, in the wake of 2004 law banning religious symbols in schools, new demands for religious neutrality have spread far beyond educational grounds, to permeate a variety of institutions, including those purportedly designed to fight against discrimination and achieve equality. Drawing on a longitudinal, qualitative analysis of workplace diversity policies, I show the eviction of faith diversity from corporate diversity procedures through the implementation of ‘white diversity’ concepts, based on two tenets: first, patterns of Muslim racialisation, as faith options are turned into ‘personality styles’ and ‘identity problems’; second, the perceived legitimacy and widespread social acceptance of this ‘respectable racism’, woven into claims upon meritocracy, and disguised as ‘corporate culture’.

本文追溯了过去几十年法国在专业和组织领域内反穆斯林种族主义和歧视的发展。它展示了在 2004 年禁止在学校使用宗教符号的法律之后，对宗教中立的新要求如何远远超出教育领域，渗透到各种机构，包括那些据称旨在打击歧视和实现平等的机构。基于对工作场所多元化政策的纵向、定性分析，我展示了通过实施“白人多元化”概念，从企业多元化程序中驱逐信仰多元化，基于两个原则：第一，穆斯林种族化的模式，随着信仰选择的转变分为“性格风格”和“身份问题”；第二，