Islam resists being placed on either side of Europe’s political boundary

Evidence

As paradoxical as it seems, Islam remains the exemplary political enemy, but it is also an enemy that “would no longer even be a political enemy but an enemy of the political.” The site of Islam-its interiority and exteriority vis-a-vis Europe and vis-a-vis the political-is therefore troubled and unsettled insofar as this site, Islam, is both political and nonpolitical. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 287

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the conceptual trouble: Islam as enemy both of Europe and of ‘the political’ itself, simultaneously inside and outside.