Current rhetoric on unassimilable Muslims mirrors centuries-old claims about Jews

Evidence

One can think of the entire history of Bosnian Islam from the nineteenth century until its destruction in the past decade, and the resultant fundamentalist cast given to Bosnia since then. … Yet, of course, exactly the same things have been said (with correction for national self-image) about Jews for two hundred years. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 928

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the edited volume’s core thesis linking antisemitism and Islamophobia; echoes chapter arguments about repeated tropes of the unassimilable minority.
• DEFINE: The ‘unassimilable minority’ framing is the conceptual hinge connecting anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim discourse.