Islamophobia is Antisemitism 2 HD

Where it all began. Greece and Rome were the "founders of Western Civilization", and they had very pronounced ideas on what was "western" (rational, austere, restrained, noble) and what was "eastern" (devious, decadent, cruel, foppish). Leonidas and Xerxes in the absurdly inaccurate "300" http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AieqiRCCqGI/S8gy4NlKAZI/AAAAAAAAAEI/A3kFYDTljZc/s1600/300.jpg A somewhat friendly, but nonetheless stereotypical, 19thC depiction of Carthaginian traders: http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/leightonarabhall/paintings/enlarge/p21.html#heading Salammbo: http://bkrs.biz/eAOW2/Salammbo.jpg On the left, one of the Asyrian Colossi http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uMXxYF6MPS8/TgslFLM7TxI/AAAAAAAABlY/e4YnrabSnc8/s1600/assyrian.jpg A view of Carthaginian religion that persists to this day: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6Vw-62YnWMs/S2Foxjv965I/AAAAAAAABIs/NdVJ5VRU5z8/s400/child+sacrifice+to+Canaanite+gods.jpg "Semitic" soldiers of the Ancient Middle East: http://freymann.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/7-taa.jpg and http://freymann.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/9-taa.jpg