The camp label ‘Muslim’ was unstable, allowing reversal and return

Evidence

Indeed, the Muslim can still and always turn or “convert.” The Muslim can turn ghost, Jew, but most importantly, the Muslim can turn back: “In Auschwitz one man knows all there is to know about another: when he was a Muslim, how much he stole” (Borowski, “Auschwitz, Our Home [A Letter],” in This way for the Gas, ro2, emphasis added). … This inscription of the past tense resonates with the “lch war ein Muselmann” registered by Ryn and Klodzinski and, most strikingly, by Agamben, though one should note that one survivor- Edward Sok61-strikingly writes in the present tense: “lch bin ein Muselmann,” Ryn and Klodzinski, “Ander Grenze,” 122. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 1210 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The camp word ‘Muslim’ originated from prisoners’ praying posture resembling Arabs.; The camp called broken-willed prisoners Muslims, men of unconditional fatalism.; The camp figure of the Muslim was a transient condition, not a fixed fate — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 1210 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The camp figure of the Muslim was a transient condition, not a fixed fate #corroborates (0.92) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 1210
• Translators systematically rendered the camp term as Mussulman, disguising its Muslim resonance #complicates (0.72)