Scientific racism assigned Jews and Muslims immutable deficiencies and demographic threat

Evidence

To those inclined to see the problem through a more scientific lens, on the other hand, it was also clear that Muslims and Jews shared the burden of being stamped with immutable physical and moral deficiencies. If none of this were bad enough, they were, each in their own way, sexual deviants and, with their large families and rapid population growth, a demographic threat to boot. They were, in short, dangerous, a threat to the solidity of the autocracy, to the empire, and to the pre-eminent position of the Russian people and their Orthodox Christian faith within it. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 506

Categorization

• XREF: The demographic-threat framing and charge of sexual deviance parallel other European antisemitic and Islamophobic discourses of the same era.