Yes. Matti Bunzl, an anthropologist, has an another take: anti-Semitism was an exclusionary project to purify the ethnic nation-state, whereas Islamophobia is a project to "safeguard the future of European civilization" (qtd. in Sharif Islam, "A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and the Nation-State," <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/islam230806.html>).
On 8/25/06, www.leninology. blogspot.com <leninology at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I doubt this is much to do with migration, however. In the US, where
> there is a comparatively small Muslim population, 40% of people think
> Muslims should have to wear special ID (maybe like those mythical badges
> that Iran was allegedly going to introduce).
Japanese immigrants constituted an even smaller proportion of the US population than Arabs and Muslims do today, and yet they were hated even before Pearl Harbor.
On 8/25/06, www.leninology. blogspot.com <leninology at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I think that although there
> is a lot of anti-Muslim racism in the UK, with its proportionately much
> larger Muslim population, you wouldn't find 40% of people willing to
> openly advocate such a policy even to pollsters. I could be wrong,
> of course.
Where Arabs and Muslims have attained a certain level of weight in populations, political organization, etc., they can defend themselves better.
On 8/25/06, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
> You might think I'm kidding, but I'm not. When Nazis
> march, and the Left counter-demonstrates, you can
> always tell the two sides apart. The Nazis are the
> wons wearing Keffiyahs and banners proclaiming
> solidarity with the Iraqi resistance. The Antifas are
> the ones with Israeli flags and pictures of Arthur
> Harris.
Very funny. That only shows how far the far Right and Left are from political power.
The state, both in the EU and the USA, has already accepted Jews as equal citizens. It has yet to accept Arabs and Muslims in either, in part because of fear of Islam, in part because of anxiety about immigration, in part because of the tendency to suspect all Arabs and Muslims of being actual or potential terrorists.
On 8/25/06, Michael Givel <mgivel at earthlink.net> wrote:
> There is widespread
> Jewish conspiracy theories and anti-Semitism in the Muslim world.
How widespread? There are, after all, an estimated 1.2 billion Muslims worldwide.
On 8/25/06, Michael Givel <mgivel at earthlink.net> wrote:
>It is not like it is a secret as the anti-Holocaust exhibit
> in Iran is big news in places like the New York Times.
The NYT article about the Holocaust cartoon exhibit in Iran says that it is not popular in Iran at all: "The provocative theme may attract the attention of the West. But it has gone little noticed here. Over a three-day period the gallery was virtually empty. A few visitors stopped by, mostly art students who said they had visited to examine artistic techniques" (at <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/world/middleeast/25iran.html>). -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>