Anti-Muslim expulsion sentiment on European soil echoes Morisco-era emotions.

Evidence

But what of a different trajectory from past to present, from the ashes of Auschwitz to violated cemeteries, torched mosques, death threats and fatwas in Europe’s cities today? What, then, of the trajectory of the Muselmann, of the Muslim? — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 858 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Anti-Muslim sentiment is a pervasive mood and policy — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 7; Contemporary European racist expulsion rhetoric echoes pre-Holocaust patterns.; European antisemitism has been displaced onto Muslims through a parallel trajectory of dehumanization — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 858

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