Bradford’s book-burning footage triggered indiscriminate vilification of all Muslims

Evidence

Evoking comparisons to the Reconquista, the Inquisition and the Reformation, the most damning comparisons were those that recalled Hitler’s nazis a half century beforehand. In what was an attempt to gain publicity, the footage was a catastrophe that inadvertently signalled the beginning of a much wider process: not just in terms of widespread condemnation but the indiscriminate vilification of all Muslims without differentiation. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 231

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Bradford book-burning may have been staged to defame Islam — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 232

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