Nasar Meer — Racialization and Religion: Race, Culture and Difference in the Study of Antisemitism and Islamophobia

20 published claims from this book.

• Cross-national opinion data refute claims that Islamophobia and antisemitism are incommensurable
• Crusade rhetoric racialized Muslims as a vile and accursed race.
• Debates on antisemitism and Islamophobia have developed largely apart from race scholarship.
• Debates over whether anti-Zionism constitutes antisemitism come in qualitative and quantitative forms.
• Demographic framing of war treats population change as a violent imperative.
• Eurabia theories predict Muslim demographic takeover of Europe.
• Islamophobia is rarely analyzed through the lens of race and racism.
• Islamophobic polemic openly prescribes demographic-based ethnic cleansing
• Jewish racialization varies with historical stability and splits along West-East rather than unified lines
• Parallel racialization logics target Jews and Muslims across eras.
• Race was co-constituted with religion in European history.
• Racialization analysis targets groups marked by race, not prejudice itself.
• Racialization describes how signifying processes construct social groups as races.
• Realist racial-formation theory treats religious-flavored premodern hostility as not a form of race.
• Shakespeare’s Moor and Jew characters encoded pre-modern racialized difference.
• The Eurabia conspiracy theory about Muslim demographic domination has circulated widely through bestselling authors
• The Eurabia myth mirrors the Protocols of the Elders of Zion structure
• The refuted Eurabia demographic conspiracy structurally mirrors the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
• The shared underlying logic of racialization persists across Jew and Muslim targets
• The unhyphenated form antisemitism reflects that Semitism never existed as a phenomenon.