Hostility to British Muslims predates modern biological racism and parallels antisemitism

Evidence

These more ‘spectacular’ moments need, however, to be placed against a longer and broader backdrop of Muslim demonization in Britain and, I would argue, cannot be understood without this historical and discursive racist hinterland. As Nasar Meer (2013) has powerfully argued, the Muslim presence in Britain has long been seen as unwelcome and problematic – a perception predating, in fact, modern ideas of biological racism and running in parallel with long historical antisemitic antecedents, which have pathologized and persecuted religious difference marked through descent, ‘race’ and ‘culture’. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 167

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing Meer’s 2013 argument on pre-modern Muslim demonization — it reframes Islamophobia as older than ‘race’ itself.
• XREF: connects to: Anti-Muslim racism is analytically parallel to European antisemitism against Jews as Jews. — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 28; Anti-Muslim and antisemitic persecution became racism when conversion was deemed biologically impossible. — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 49; British political leaders portray Jews as a model minority and Muslims as threatening outsiders. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 708 (+8 more)

Related

• Suspicion of Britain’s Muslims predates modern biological racism (similarity 0.93)
• Racism scholarship’s biologistic paradigms long excluded anti-Muslim discrimination as unclassifiable (similarity 0.86)
• Anti-Muslim racism is analytically parallel to European antisemitism against Jews as Jews. (similarity 0.85)
• Anti-Muslim and antisemitic persecution became racism when conversion was deemed biologically impossible. (similarity 0.85)
• Racism scholarship long confined itself to biological black-white and antisemitic models (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia is rarely analyzed through the lens of race and racism. (similarity 0.82)
• Miles and Brown argue anti-Muslim phenomena fit existing racism and xenophobia theories (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish stereotyping operates through racialization rather than mere religious prejudice. (similarity 0.82)
• British political leaders portray Jews as a model minority and Muslims as threatening outsiders. (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia is one of several challenges British Muslims confront. (similarity 0.81)
• Anti-Muslim discrimination is justified by invidious reference to Muslim cultural practices (similarity 0.81)
• Muslims were told anti-Muslim racism cannot exist because Muslims are not a race (similarity 0.81)
• Combating Islamophobia requires seeing it as interlaced with xenophobia and classism. (similarity 0.80)
• Religious anti-Semitism need not enter the state-racism genealogy until the nineteenth century (similarity 0.80)
• Highlighting shared antisemitic and Islamophobic histories is itself a political intervention against Muslim-Jewish distance. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Suspicion of Britain’s Muslims predates modern biological racism #corroborates (0.95) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 162
• Nineteenth-century State racism reutilized older religious anti-Semitism for biological exclusion #exemplifies (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 105
• Racism scholarship long confined itself to biological black-white and antisemitic models #expands (0.78) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 583
• Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups #expands (0.75) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 210