Islam is the last cultural group one may denigrate with impunity in the West

Evidence

Malicious generalizations about Islam have become the last acceptable form of denigration of foreign culture in the West; what is said about the Muslim mind, or character, or religion, or culture as a whole cannot now be said in mainstream discussion about Africans, Jews, other Orientals, or Asians. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 7

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The ‘last acceptable prejudice’ framing directly parallels the cross-cultural moral-panic logic in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ — each era finds one denigrated group whose vilification substitutes for reasoned debate.
• SEED: An essay angle: ‘the last acceptable prejudice’ as a recurring historical slot — how each era designates one group as open season, and what replaces that group when the taboo shifts.

Related

• Western discourse reduces all Muslim societies to a single malevolent essence (similarity 0.80)
• Western ideological camps all reduce Islam to a scapegoat (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia remains more socially acceptable than other Western prejudices (similarity 0.78)
• Anti-Muslim prejudice is contingent and changeable, not fixed in Western character. (similarity 0.78)