In a fascinating study of memory politics in Germany, the Netherlands, and France, Nancy Foner and Richard Alba show how commemoration of the Holocaust, which is meant to foster tolerance and a protective stance toward the rights of minority populations, has actually shored up prejudice against Muslim immigrants, who are widely portrayed as religiously intolerant, homophobic, sexist, and anti-Semitic.

XREF: Connects to broader literature on how well-intentioned educational or memory initiatives can backfire, and to critiques of tolerance discourse that excludes certain minorities.

Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ Th…, loc. 663