The Judeo-Christian concept emerged around WWII partly to expel Islam from the West

Evidence

It is impossible to understand the Orientalist component of Islam-asrace in the United States without examining the construction of ‘Judeo- Christianity’ in opposition to Islam. Unlike the positioning of Christianity as the religion of civilization discussed above, this coupling of Jewish and Christian traditions is a later product that is much more visible and operative from shortly before the start of World War II onwards. In this formation of a singular, contiguous, religious tradition, the long history of persecution and racial othering of Jews by Christians is neatly obscured. Also obscured, in favor of a European history, is the longstanding historical co-existence of Jews, Christians, and Muslims and their shared histories in the Near East and the Indian subcontinent. Finally, Islam’s foundational contributions to Western civilization in science, architecture, philosophy, and mathematics, without which there would simply be no Enlightenment, is entirely erased in the process of expelling Islam from the West. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 229

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Aziz’s ‘Racial Muslim’ claim that Islam’s racialization is historically constructed in American law — this passage supplies the religious-ideology groundwork story that precedes the legal one. — connects to: The Judeo-Christian category is a mid-twentieth-century construct that erases Islam from the West — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 229; The West invents a familial myth to justify expelling Muslims — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 1; America’s postwar Judeo-Christian identity excluded Black Americans and Muslims (+8 more)
• DEFINE: Defines Judeo-Christianity as a mid-twentieth-century product built in opposition to Islam, which is central to the author’s racecraft account.

Broader Connections

• The Judeo-Christian category is a mid-twentieth-century construct that erases Islam from the West #corroborates (0.97) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 229
• The Judeo-Christian pair constitutes itself by excluding Islam from neighborly love. #corroborates (0.92) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 496
• America’s postwar Judeo-Christian identity excluded Black Americans and Muslims #expands (0.90)
• The West invents a familial myth to justify expelling Muslims #corroborates (0.85) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 1
• Neofascist parties now legitimize their anti-Muslim rhetoric through Judeo-Christian heritage language. #exemplifies (0.83) — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 73
• The idea of Europe was founded on purging Jewish and Muslim presence #expands (0.82)
• Post-Holocaust guilt over admitting only 110,000 Jewish refugees drove the mainstreaming of Judeo-Christian identity. #qualifies (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 437
• Assimilationist Muslims seek to expand US national identity from Judeo-Christian to Abrahamic #expands (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 974
• Expanding the Judeo-Christian label to include Islam re-emphasises rather than defuses its Christian bias #qualifies (0.78) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 888
• The shared figure of Abraham unsettles the Judeo-Christian hyphen and the politics of Europe #complicates (0.76) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 334
• He then quotes a Palestinian fighter in Afghanistan to show his definition of jihad holy war against the West and violence against ‘Jews and infidels.’ Such a simplistic and superficial definition… #exemplifies (0.75)