Jews once failed the same civilizational tests now applied to Muslims.

Evidence

Even if today it is true, as Richard Bulliet claims, that ‘Christianity and Judaism pass by definition the civilizational litmus tests proposed for Islam even though some of their practitioners dictate women’s dress codes, prohibit alcoholic beverages, demand prayer in public schools, persecute gays and lesbians, and damn members of other faiths to hell’, this was certainly not the case for Jews in the secularising Christian world of the European nations and their colonies following the Reformation. Indeed, Jews were regularly seen as being inherently unable to pass ‘civilizational litmus tests’ in the Western Diaspora in virtually all areas. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 879

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the flip-side of the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ piece — dress-code and practice accusations used against one out-group migrate to another over centuries. Strong candidate for the SEED of a follow-up essay on how ‘civilizational litmus tests’ shift target groups.
• SEED: Article angle: ‘The Jews Were the Muslims’ — how the exact ritual-practice accusations (dress codes, food rules, prayer, loyalty) that attach to Islam today were leveled at European Jewry, showing the test is about out-groupness, not the practices themselves.
• DEEPTHINKING: Reframes the claim that Islamophobia is about ‘civilizational’ incompatibility by showing the identical logic ran against Jews, who were then assimilated; the criterion was never the practices themselves.