A profitable genre of apocalyptic fiction fused end-times prophecy with anti-Muslim racism

Evidence

Similar to the cottage industry of anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic literature in the early twentieth century, a surge in sales of religious fiction blended apocalypticism with anti-Muslim racism. Best-selling authors like Joel Richardson sold books entitled Antichrist: Islam’s Awaited Messiah (2006), The Islamic Antichrist: The Shocking Truth about the Nature of the Beast (2009), and Mideast Beast: The Case of the Islamic Antichrist (2012). Another best-selling author, Hal Lindsay, published The Everlasting Hatred: The Roots of Jihad in 2002, in which he proclaims, “Islam represents the single greatest threat to the continued survival of the planet.” That same year, Mark Hitchock published War on Terror: Unfolding Bible Prophecy, which claims that Islamic terrorism is a sign of the end times; Joel Rosenberg began The Last Jihad book series with Arab and Muslim terrorists as the primary Figure 8. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 746

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s catalog of moral panics — the reader has noted that cottage industries of anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic literature preceded these — an echo of examples in the ‘Immodesty’ panic article’s comparative method. — connects to: Fiction fixated on past corruption renews in prophetic power later — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 196
• SEED: Angle: the literary genre of the apocalypse as a commercial engine of outgroup demonization, showing that hate literature sells as prophecy bestsellers — a distribution story that parallels earlier cottage industries.