It’s not a “widespread notion that immigrant = Muslim in Europe”, it’s a fear-mongering use of a stereotyped view of All Muslims as bad, problematic, backwards, violent if male and submissive if female, and fundamentally Others, even when they’re European, that is being overwhelmingly used and abused in mainstream discourse. Intersectionality means challenging this very idea instead of just going along with it to claim: hey, but we’re not all Muslims!
Yes. Indeed. But also, my point is not at odds with yours. My point is that this is an inherently racist trope obscured by the …