Migration and global media collapsed the conceptual distance separating Europeans from Muslims

Evidence

At the same time, as the historically known physical and conceptual proximities of Muslims and Islam as external, distant and ‘out-there’ have been systematically eradicated through patterns of mass migration and the onset of global media networks, so the critical – even conceptually ‘safe’ – distance that existed previously no longer exists. Consequently, the historically and mythologically distant Muslims of old remain the enemy Other but are also nowadays the enemy ‘within’. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 569

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s module: this is Allen’s conditions-based answer to why Islamophobia spread, distinct from both Runnymede’s attitudinal frame and the race-based frame. — connects to: Economic migration has been criminalized as the underbelly of globalization; Global events normalized Islamophobic discourse and made Muslims the ultimate Other — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 255; Media mapping erased the distinction between real and imagined Muslims — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 240 (+4 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The ‘enemy Other becomes enemy within’ mechanism — erasure of critical distance reframing Muslims from distant threat to internal one — is a genuinely dense reframing of how Islamophobia operates spatially.

Related

• Media mapping erased the distinction between real and imagined Muslims (similarity 0.87)
• Media mapping equates imagined Muslims with physical proximity to the West (similarity 0.86)
• Proximity converted a remote global Muslim threat into a domestic one (similarity 0.82)
• Post-2000 European Islamophobia emerged from terror, media, and the war on terror (similarity 0.81)
• Islam symbolized lasting trauma and danger, so its representation tamed it for Europe (similarity 0.81)
• Domesticating the Muslim threat made it feel closer and more dangerous (similarity 0.79)
• Global events normalized Islamophobic discourse and made Muslims the ultimate Other (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia gained massive discursive resonance in Europe within about a decade (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobic content has shifted from crude cartoons to globally shared narratives and institutional suspicion. (similarity 0.78)
• Resurgent Islam within European societies fuels the same fear in France as in Britain (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Media mapping equates imagined Muslims with physical proximity to the West #expands (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 240
• Sustained daily contact tempered hostile European images of Muslims. #contradicts (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 51
• Postwar Europe’s Muslim population traced to French and British colonial ties #expands (0.75) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 336
• Modern communications distanced French administrators from the colonised population #corroborates (0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 95