The trope of Islam’s fixed essence descends from European anti-Semitism.

Evidence

In this article we explore some of the reasons why there may be less sympathy for the notion that Muslim minorities might be subject to racism by virtue of their real or perceived ‘Muslimness’ than there is, rightly, for the idea that Jewish minorities in Europe might be the object of racism by virtue of their real or perceived ‘Jewishness’. Or, more precisely, that ‘a form of hostility towards Jews as Jews’ might be paralleled by a form of hostility towards Muslims as Muslims. This parallel is something that goes beyond similarities in negative stereotyping, however, for, as Geoffrey Levey and Tariq Modood insist, the analogy lies in the way in which anti-Muslim sentiment, like antisemitism, ‘trades on and reinforces prejudice … via a process of induction and a process of deduction’. — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 28 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

But what of a different trajectory from past to present, from the ashes of Auschwitz to violated cemeteries, torched mosques, death threats and fatwas in Europe’s cities today? What, then, of the trajectory of the Muselmann, of the Muslim? — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 858 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: European anti-Semitism and Islamophobia mirror each other in structure. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 465; European antisemitism has been displaced onto Muslims through a parallel trajectory of dehumanization — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 858; Anti-Muslim racism is analytically parallel to European antisemitism against Jews as Jews. — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 28 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Muslim racism is analytically parallel to European antisemitism against Jews as Jews. #corroborates (0.85) — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 28
• European anti-Semitism and Islamophobia mirror each other in structure. #corroborates (0.80) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 465
• European antisemitism has been displaced onto Muslims through a parallel trajectory of dehumanization #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 858
• The unassimilability trope once applied to Jews now targets Muslims #corroborates (0.80)