Anti-Muslim pandering profits while ignoring the permanence of European Muslims

Evidence

Europeans seemingly do not wish to acknowledge a simple but unavoidable truth—and certain politicians have found that they can ascend to power by pandering to the idea that this truth can be ignored. That truth is simply this: Muslims are not going away anytime soon. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 561

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 561
• XREF: connects to: Unconscious anti-Arab bias kept a European open only to a fellow non-Arab’s call — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 546; Islamophobia operates as a marketable commodity across media forms — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 354; Anti-Muslim polemics function to define their authors’ identity rather than describe Islam. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 124 (+4 more)

Related

• Market incentives drive the media to reinforce rather than challenge religious explanations of terrorism (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Muslim polemics legitimated Christian subjugation of Spanish Muslims (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Muslim racism’s power lies in unexamined assumptions presented as fact. (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Muslim politics thrive even where Muslim populations are tiny (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia remains Europe’s one tolerated and even encouraged racist ideology (similarity 0.79)
• Former Muslims validating anti-Muslim discourse claim insider authority. (similarity 0.78)
• Islamophobia is increasingly theorized as a form of racism rather than mere religious prejudice (similarity 0.78)
• Evidence of anti-Muslim incidents has not convinced many of Islamophobia as a distinct phenomenon (similarity 0.78)
• European hostility toward Muslims exceeds even hostility toward other immigrants (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Islamophobia operates as a marketable commodity across media forms #corroborates (0.75) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 354
• Structural utility, not ignorance, sustains Muslim racialization. #corroborates (0.65)
• Anti-Muslim polemics function to define their authors’ identity rather than describe Islam. #corroborates (0.60) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 124