Muslims today form far larger Western European minorities than Jews ever did.

Evidence

Now I know that there are also vast differences between Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and Muslims today. There are simply many more Muslims today in Western Europe than there were Jews in the earlier period. Jews historically never formed more than 1% of the population of any Western European nation. Muslim populations form a considerable minority today. While there is no Western European city with a Muslim majority, many recent news stories predict that Marseilles or Rotterdam will be the first European city that will have one. In France today, there are six hundred thousand Jews while there are between 5 and 6 million Muslims, who make up about 10% of the population. In Germany, with a tiny Jewish population of slightly over one hundred thousand, almost 4% of the population is Muslim (totaling more than 3 million people). In Britain, about 2.5% of the total population (1.48 million people) is Muslim. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 925

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the comparator’s own reading of demographic underpinnings of antisemitism vs. Islamophobia discourse; also echoes Nora’s memory framework distinguished in the next paragraph.