Postwar Europe’s Muslim population traced to French and British colonial ties

Evidence

In 1950, some three hundred thousand Muslims lived in the twenty-seven countries that today make up the European Union (EU). Most Muslims at this time came from former European colonies. As a result, most lived in Britain or France, the two largest colonial powers in Muslim-majority regions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 336

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: French Muslim presence traces to Algeria’s 1830-1962 colonial conquest; British colonial ideology consolidated the essentialized idea of Islam as a homogeneous threat; World War I and right-wing politics drove French racism into colonial policy (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• French Muslim presence traces to Algeria’s 1830-1962 colonial conquest #expands (0.80)
• British colonial ideology consolidated the essentialized idea of Islam as a homogeneous threat #expands (0.60)
• World War I and right-wing politics drove French racism into colonial policy #expands (0.50)
• By the early 1900s nearly all of the Muslim world fell under European rule #expands (0.50) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 175
• Colonial exclusion practices reinforced discrimination against immigrants, Jews, and women in France #expands (0.50) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 886