Islam’s appearance severed Europe’s political being from its theological roots

Evidence

We thus find ourselves at the site where the thinker of the theologicopolitical interrupts the transition and the continuity between the theological and the political. Islam marks this interruption insofar as its appearance enables its abstraction, its being cut off from its status as a religious community, much in the same way as the being-political of Europe is no longer derived from its theological source, much as it is no longer deduced from the Gospels, now construed as “nonpolitical.” — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 283

Categorization

• XREF: Core of the antisemitism-Islamophobia bridge chapter; anchors claims in Ibn Warraq, Spencer, and other Islam-cluster books being read.