American Islamophobia inherited European tropes but without Europe’s deep historical memory

Evidence

American Islamophobia is more shortsighted, lacking the memory of its European parent. Cultural narratives of Islam as a tyrannical faith were imported into the United States from Europe, but damning tropes about the faith and depictions of the Prophet Muhammad as a “false prophet that could attract enough converts to enslave the nation” do not trickle down and permeate the minds of everyday Americans as potently as they do the French, Spanish, or Belgian people. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 836

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Eurabia conspiracy theory migrated from Europe into US Islamophobia; American Orientalism couples inherited European alienness claims with produced Arab stereotypes. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 204; American Orientalism fused European notions of Islam’s alienness with new Arab stereotypes — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 204 (+1 more)