Early modern Europe could sympathize with individual Muslims while expelling the group

Evidence

These two books-Mastnak’s Crusading Peace and Cohen’s Living Letters—contain enough historical knowledge to explode the fundamentally erroneous, but widely held notion that Muslims were “the enemy outside Western Europe” and Jews “the enemy within Europe itself” and to begin anew (Heng, “The Romance of England: Richard Coer de Lyon, Saracens, Jews, and the Politics of Race and Nation,” 142; see also Harle, The Enemy, esp. ch. 3). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 921 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Early modern Spain alternately demanded Muslim assimilation and then rejected it once achieved; The inside-outside model of Jews and Muslims as Europe’s enemies is historically erroneous — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 921; Old Muslim minorities in Europe were acculturated yet still persecuted (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Early modern Spain alternately demanded Muslim assimilation and then rejected it once achieved #exemplifies (0.85)
• Old Muslim minorities in Europe were acculturated yet still persecuted #exemplifies (0.80)
• The inside-outside model of Jews and Muslims as Europe’s enemies is historically erroneous #corroborates (0.75) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 921