Have Muslims Replaced Jews as the Other of the Twenty-First Century?

An excerpt from ‘Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought’

The rise of Muslims as a prominent ethnoreligious minority in Western Europe and the United States raises a pertinent question for this study: Have they taken the position formerly occupied by Jews as a foil for the construction of modern European and American identities? Numerous scholars have suggested such a ...
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Have Muslims Replaced Jews as the Other of the Twenty-First Century?