Anti-Muslim rhetoric was founded in the Middle Ages and persists into today

Evidence

Anticipating Ben Carson’s 2015 claim that “Islam is inconsistent with the Constitution” and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal’s statement, that same year, that Muslim immigration is part of an attempt to “overtake the culture” of the West, the Hassan court’s framing of Islam as threatening to American values and society carried the Muslim naturalization ban forward. Indeed, the very stereotypes instrumental to the courts’ understanding of Islam have been echoed, in virtually identical terms, by today’s Islamophobia-peddling politicians. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 193 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Medieval theological justification for opposing Muslims has faded in Europe. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 88; Bush’s ‘crusade’ rhetoric revived medieval holy war framing against Islam — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 279; A remarkably uniform anti-Saracen ideology persisted through centuries like a catechism (+20 more)

Related

• Century-old judicial stereotypes of Islam persist verbatim in today’s politics. (similarity 0.87)
• Medieval theological justification for opposing Muslims has faded in Europe. (similarity 0.83)
• Anti-Muslim racism has no unbroken historical continuity from medieval to modern forms (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia has been present in Western discourse since the Middle Ages, when negative stereotypes about Muslims helped build support for the Crusades and rationalized European colonial domination. (similarity 0.81)
• Bush’s ‘crusade’ rhetoric revived medieval holy war framing against Islam (similarity 0.81)
• Islam has been framed by passion, prejudice, and political interests since the Middle Ages (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval anti-Muslim rhetoric borrowed bodily-debility tropes from anti-Jewish writing (similarity 0.81)
• An established anti-Islamic literature existed in the West by 1350 (similarity 0.80)
• Vituperative anti-Islamic polemic persisted into the 1780s and 1790s. (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval anti-Muslim rhetoric survives unchanged through the Enlightenment and into today (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Islam rhetoric gained legitimacy by wrapping itself in liberal values. (similarity 0.79)
• Many historians trace the structural distortions of Islam represented by modern Islamophobia to medieval Europe, and aversive portrayals emerged nearly as early as Islam itself. (similarity 0.79)
• French discourse equated Muslim with fanatic for centuries (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Muslim rhetoric has been mainstreamed across right-left ideological divides in the US (similarity 0.79)
• Western hostility to Islam shifted from theological to political rationales across the centuries (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The invented rape-of-the-Virgin-Mary fantasy persists in modern anti-Muslim discourse #exemplifies (0.85)
• Medieval anti-Muslim rhetoric borrowed bodily-debility tropes from anti-Jewish writing #expands (0.85)
• Century-old judicial stereotypes of Islam persist verbatim in today’s politics. #exemplifies (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 193
• Islam has been framed by passion, prejudice, and political interests since the Middle Ages #corroborates (0.70) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 699
• Modern racism against Muslims persists through more polite, euphemistic policy language #expands (0.70) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 749
• Anti-Muslim rhetoric served to police the doctrinal boundary of true Christianity. #corroborates (0.70) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 96
• Medieval depictions of Islam as heresy served to justify violence and resist conversion #corroborates (0.70) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 139
• Historical memory of the Crusades drives Europeans’ anti-Muslim votes and stares #exemplifies (0.65)
• Western hostility to Islam shifted from theological to political rationales across the centuries #qualifies (0.60) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 106
• Elites mobilized Islamophobia to advance their political agendas across centuries #expands (0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 98