US and European hostility to Islam arises from distinct imperial versus racist sources

Evidence

While the context in the United States is American imperialism, in Europe it is racist indignation and legalized prejudice against Muslim immigrant communities—South Asians in the United Kingdom, North Africans in France, Turks in Germany, Iraqis and Palestinians in the Scandinavian countries. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 102

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”

Related

• European Islamophobia targets Muslim citizenship rights while American Islamophobia fuels foreign wars (similarity 0.87)
• European native informers serve local anti-immigrant racism rather than US imperial aims. (similarity 0.87)
• American Islamophobia stems from slavery and anti-Black racism, not just Orientalism. (similarity 0.85)
• Ex-Muslim critics abroad worsen anti-Muslim racism and shield the West. (similarity 0.84)
• Anti-Muslim racism cannot be understood only through recent U.S. racial formations (similarity 0.83)
• Anti-Muslim racism operates through a distinct racial logic (similarity 0.83)
• African American and immigrant Muslims face distinct forms of anti-Muslim racism. (similarity 0.83)
• Racialization of Muslims is historically discontinuous and empire-contingent. (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia and racial prejudice are entangled in distinct ways across Western contexts (similarity 0.83)
• US empire-building abroad drives anti-Muslim racism domestically (similarity 0.83)
• Both Jews and Muslims have been racialized by majority populations in modern Europe. (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-Islam animus was elite-driven before World War II, not populist (similarity 0.82)
• American racism against Muslims extends back to enslaved Africans (similarity 0.82)
• European hostility toward Muslims exceeds even hostility toward other immigrants (similarity 0.82)
• European Islamophobia is deeper and more institutionally embedded than America’s. (similarity 0.82)