Anti-Muslim racism emerged from Old World-New World contact

Evidence

I argue that anti–Muslim racism and Islamophobia are central to the narrative of modern nations—and to modernity itself—because they emerged in the contact between the Old World and the New World. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 104

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 104
• XREF: connects to: Anti-Muslim racism has no unbroken historical continuity from medieval to modern forms