European Islamophobia is more layered because it rests on living history of Islamic conquest.

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• Academic definitions of Islamophobia must be coupled with lived testimony. (similarity 0.87)
• Many historians trace the structural distortions of Islam represented by modern Islamophobia to medieval Europe, and aversive portrayals emerged nearly as early as Islam itself. (similarity 0.86)
• Islamophobic claims serve to positively define their speakers rather than describe Muslims (similarity 0.86)
• History illuminates current Islamophobia but not as a fixed or reliably accurate backdrop (similarity 0.86)
• Literature resists Islamophobic universalism by structuring feeling and imagining alternative experiences (similarity 0.85)
• Interrogating Western-ness is required to expunge Islamophobia (similarity 0.84)
• France’s geographic proximity to Muslim lands makes its Islamophobia more layered (similarity 0.84)
• European study of Islam originates in fear, not curiosity, and that hostility persists today. (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobia descends directly from Orientalism’s civilizational divide between Islam and the West (similarity 0.84)
• Europe’s historical fear of Islam derived from its military expansion reaching multiple continents (similarity 0.84)
• European study of Islam originated in fear, not curiosity. (similarity 0.83)
• Global fiction contests Islamophobia by refusing the clash-of-civilizations model (similarity 0.83)
• Scholarly definitions of Islamophobia cannot capture its lived, irrational experience (similarity 0.83)
• Fiction contests Islamophobia either by direct Islamic subjectivity or by oblique readerly defamiliarization. (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia spans the political spectrum and is embedded in empire’s infrastructure (similarity 0.83)