Religious commitments can blind scholars to historical evidence of division

Evidence

Yet because of their explicit dedication to “the struggle to achieve the Massignonian vision,” that is, to bring about a quasi-eschatological unification of the “three branches of the same religion, the religion of Abraham,” they disregard and even dismiss the dissociative forces (and more importantly, the reasons for these dissociations) at work in “Christian Europe” (Cutler and Cutler, jew as Ally, r). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 936