European Islamophobia targets Muslim citizenship rights while American Islamophobia fuels foreign wars

Evidence

There is a fundamental difference between the manifestations of anti-Muslim racism in Europe and in the United States—and this difference makes the market for the native informer’s services doubly profitable in the latter. While, in Europe, classical anti-Semitism is now being transfigured into assaults on the rights of Muslim citizens, in the United States such rights as wearing a scarf or attending a religious school have seldom been questioned. In Europe, Islamophobia is largely manifested in the antagonism of most European Union (EU) states toward Turkish membership, and in their condescending attitude toward indigenous Muslim communities in the former Yugoslavia and other Eastern European enclaves, and multiplied by the denial of full citizenship rights to new Muslim emigres in countries like Germany, France, and Austria. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 338

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts sharply with how US-centric accounts of Islamophobia (e.g. the shifting-frames literature) treat the phenomenon — a genuinely two-continent structural map.

Related

• US and European hostility to Islam arises from distinct imperial versus racist sources (similarity 0.87)
• European native informers serve local anti-immigrant racism rather than US imperial aims. (similarity 0.83)
• European Muslims’ lower class standing sharpens Islamophobia more than America’s (similarity 0.82)
• European Islamophobia is deeper and more institutionally embedded than America’s. (similarity 0.80)
• Both Jews and Muslims have been racialized by majority populations in modern Europe. (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia took different shapes in Britain and America because each faced different Muslim relations (similarity 0.79)
• The European Union helped spread Islamophobia across continents as part of its identity (similarity 0.79)
• American Islamophobia stems from slavery and anti-Black racism, not just Orientalism. (similarity 0.79)
• European bigotry presumes Jews and Muslims have somewhere else to go. (similarity 0.79)
• European anti-Semitism and Islamophobia mirror each other in structure. (similarity 0.78)
• Islamophobia and racial prejudice are entangled in distinct ways across Western contexts (similarity 0.78)