Language:
German
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Blätter für Deutsche und Internationale Politik
Angaben zur Quelle:
55,3 (2010) 17-20
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Islamophobia History 21st century
;
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Presents analogies between the antisemitism of the 19th-early 20th centuries and Islamophobia today. Antisemites contended that Jews were not willing to integrate, and Muslims are now accused of the same thing. Jews were and Muslims are considered foreign and outlandish, and are accused of plotting conspiracies. Both Judaism and Islam have been seen as being aggressive and not willing to modernize. Building of synagogues and mosques have encountered opposition. Argues that these views have become popular after a period of integration and normalization, and are an expression of fear of further assimilation. They originate in liberal and leftist circles, and constitute a type of elitist racism. In the passage to racist antisemitism, old and new hatreds were intermingled - Christian-inspired anti-Judaism with xenophobia and social-Darwinist racism. The anti-Islamic views are also fed from heterogeneous sources, not the least Christian Islamophobia.
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