Blood-libel imagery linked Jews and Muslims eating Christian children.

Evidence

The identification of Jews as dogs—ravenous, wild, and cannibalistic—continued for centuries. In the eighteenth century, Jewish dogs were accused of eating children, narratives based on late medieval and Renaissance paintings of Jews and Muslims killing Christian children. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 232

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 232
• XREF: connects to: Rabbinic theological polemics enabled Christian burning of Jewish books — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 2591; Muslims were ideologically collapsed into heretics, Jews, and the devil by Christian writers.; Jews and Muslims were co-identified as Jesus’s executioners from at least the 690s (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Fears of dismemberment shaped medieval cannibalism myths about Muslims #corroborates (0.70)
• Passion narratives co-identified Jews and Muslims as a single enemy #corroborates (0.70)
• Muslim males in Gothic horror are framed as essentially evil, deviant, and child-murdering #expands (0.60)
• Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups #corroborates (0.60) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 210
• Jews and Muslims shared a canine monstrous identity in medieval literature #corroborates (0.60) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 226
• Jews and Muslims occupied a shared proximity-distancing position in Christian self-definition #corroborates (0.50)
• Church persecution as doctrine caused the emergence of Muslim monsters #expands (0.50)
• Group scapegoating has recurred against Jews, Irish, Chinese, Roma, and LGBTQ people #expands (0.40) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 37