Evangelical alarmist books recycled anti-immigrant rhetoric against American Muslims

Evidence

Huntington’s and Lewis’s theories circulated widely within Christian Evangelical circles. Robert Morey’s influential 1992 book, The Islamic Invasion, rang a false alarm that the presence of millions of Muslims in America was part of a planned invasion. Harking back to the anti-Chinese, anti-Semitic, and anti-Catholic rhetoric of the early twentieth century, Morey condemned Muslims as inassimilable, uncivilized, and a fifth column. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 699

Categorization

• SEED: Angle for an essay: how each wave of US nativist panic recycles the identical charges (inassimilable, uncivilized, fifth column) against whichever group is current — Chinese, Catholics, Jews, then Muslims.