Nationalism and the Other
America has always been a majority Protestant nation, and the integration of minority groups into the American mainstream has always been difficult. Ali Asani, professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures at Harvard, explained, “Nationalism as an ideology is premised on the notion of the other. So you always have to have an ‘other.’” Significant parallels can be drawn between Muslims in America today and the experience of Catholics in the early 20th century.
via Do Americans Fear Muslims? « The Harvard Political Review.
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