Casting hostility to Muslims as perennial misattributes contemporary causes to religion.
Evidence
The positing of a continuous, historic, past of confrontation may not only be historically inaccurate but may ascribe cause to religion, an eternal factor, where other, more contingent and contemporary causes, may be at work. — Fred Halliday, ‘Islamophobia’ Reconsidered, 48
Categorization
- QUESTION: How does this ‘contingent vs. eternal cause’ critique sit against the deep-history scholarship (e.g. of Islamophobia’s roots centuries earlier) that later literature insists on?
- XREF: connects to: Hostility today targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith. — Fred Halliday, ‘Islamophobia’ Reconsidered, 48; Western hostility to Islam shifted from theological to political rationales across the centuries — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 106; Muslims suffer hostility for perceived identity beyond any voluntary religious choice. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 96 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Western hostility to Islam shifted from theological to political rationales across the centuries
#qualifies(0.85) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 106 - Halliday argues modern hostility targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith.
#corroborates(0.85) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 87 - Church persecution as doctrine caused the emergence of Muslim monsters
#contradicts(0.80) - Hostility to British Muslims predates modern biological racism and parallels antisemitism
#complicates(0.78) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 167 - Muslims suffer hostility for perceived identity beyond any voluntary religious choice.
#expands(0.75) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 96