Nazi and Chinese regimes shared religion-scapegoating logic of propaganda and surveillance

Evidence

The time, place, and faiths of the two persecuted groups differed in myriad ways, but the hateful motive was one and the same. Religion was the scapegoat for two morally decayed regimes that vilified an entire faith and its adherents through meticulous propaganda campaigns and surveillance systems, paving the way to collecting and imprisoning them en masse in concentration camps. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 550

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• XREF: This shared-machinery thesis directly serves the reader’s global-synthesis reading goal across the book.