Passion narratives co-identified Jews and Muslims as a single enemy

Evidence

This is just one example of how hate against Muslims is not only burning out of control in the United States, but also how it threatens to (and does) jump from group to group, in the same way a wild fire can jump from house to house. … According to award-winning British columnist Jeff Sparrow, one reason for this phenomenon is that the ongoing “war on terror” global narrative has effectively normalized anti-Muslim rhetoric, and this rhetoric has replicated “all the traditional tropes of anti-Semitism” that white supremacists had used before. It’s just directed against Muslims now. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 210 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The vilification of Jews and Muslims is one continuous historical process; Medieval passion plays made Muhammad the god of Christ’s Jewish and Roman tormentors; Medieval art and text conflated Jews and Muslims into a single Saracen body (+8 more)

Related

• The vilification of Jews and Muslims is one continuous historical process (similarity 0.86)
• Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-Semitic imagery transfers smoothly from Jewish to Arab targets (similarity 0.81)
• Passion narratives collapsed Jews and Muslims into one identity (similarity 0.81)
• Jews and Muslims occupied a shared proximity-distancing position in Christian self-definition (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval anti-Muslim rhetoric borrowed bodily-debility tropes from anti-Jewish writing (similarity 0.78)
• Islam has been framed by passion, prejudice, and political interests since the Middle Ages (similarity 0.78)
• The image of Muslims shifted with military threat, not with religion per se (similarity 0.78)
• Anti-Muslim racism is analytically parallel to European antisemitism against Jews as Jews. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Jews and Muslims occupied a shared proximity-distancing position in Christian self-definition #corroborates (0.75)
• Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups #corroborates (0.70) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 210
• Medieval writers represented Jewish and Muslim bodies as jointly diseased and degenerate #corroborates (0.70)
• Orientalist scholarship conflates Muslims and Jews into one racial type #corroborates (0.60)
• Islam has been framed by passion, prejudice, and political interests since the Middle Ages #corroborates (0.60) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 699
• Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are parallel projects of majority exclusion #complicates (0.55) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 482
• Treating antisemitism and Islamophobia as analogous masks asymmetric power relations. #complicates (0.55) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 23