Islamophobia, the term, is from the 70s.
https://twitter.com/HP_0423v5/status/868022253992202240 …
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So it was about Victorian attitudes towards Islam and how ismalophobia intersected with racism and classism. Basically the question I was...
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asking was was it worse to be black, Muslim or poor (turns out victorians hated black africans ever so slightly more than Islam)
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So part of it was looking at the roots of islamophobia & how it can be traced back to Ancient Greece where they viewed the East as barbaric
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And then how in medieval Europe people started freaking out about the rise of Islam and so made up a load of shit about how it's violent etc
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And then how that got a resurgence in the Victorian era because of the emphasis on classical education and also increased migration to U.K.
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This is very close to my heart. I'm from one of the epicentres of the direct effects of Islamophobia. I'm from Cyprus.
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