Anti-Sharia hysteria mirrors nineteenth-century European claims that Jewish law bred disloyalty

Evidence

“The suggestion that Sharia threatens American security is disturbingly reminiscent of the accusation, in nineteenth-century Europe, that Jewish religious law was seditious,” wrote Yale University Professor Eliyahu Stern in an opinion piece for the New York Times bluntly titled “Don’t Fear Islamic Law in America.” Professor Stern noted that the conspiratorial fear that Jewish law bred disloyalty was not limited to political elites in Western societies either. He noted that leading mainstream European philosophers propagated these fears at the time with their noxious anti-Semitic personal views. For instance, the famous German philosopher Immanuel Kant had once argued that the particularistic nature of “Jewish legislation” made Jews “hostile to all other peoples.” Fellow German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel similarly contended that Jewish kosher dietary rules and other Mosaic laws barred Jewish people from identifying with their fellow Prussians and called into question their ability to be loyal civil servants in government. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 610

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the historical antisemitism-Islamophobia conflation central to Beydoun’s The New Crusades and Kumar’s works in the cluster this book caps. — connects to: Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are parallel projects of majority exclusion — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 482; European anti-Semitism and Islamophobia mirror each other in structure. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 465; The mafia-as-conspiracy view dates back to nineteenth-century disputes (+1 more)
• SEED: Kant and Hegel as anti-Semitic propagators offers an angle on how canonical western philosophers laundered religious-bigotry claims into respectable discourse.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 610

Related

• The mafia-as-conspiracy view dates back to nineteenth-century disputes (similarity 0.92)
• European anti-Semitism and Islamophobia mirror each other in structure. (similarity 0.81)
• Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are parallel projects of majority exclusion (similarity 0.80)
• Religious anti-Semitism need not enter the state-racism genealogy until the nineteenth century (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are parallel projects of majority exclusion #corroborates (0.75) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 482
• European anti-Semitism and Islamophobia mirror each other in structure. #corroborates (0.70) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 465