More than half a century after the UN's adoption of the International Convention on the Prohibition of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, a debate has emerged over whether to extend the Convention's protections to religious discrimination. This Article uses history to intervene in the debate. It argues that racial and religious othering were mutually co-constitutive in the colonial encounter and foundational to the making of modern international law. Moreover, the contemporary proposal to address the interplay of racial and religious othering is hardly new; iterations of that demand surfaced in the earlier twentieth century, as well. By illuminating the centrality of race-religion othering to the colonial encounter and chronicling failed attempts by Europe's “others” to secure international legal protections, this Article makes a case for crafting an attuned response in the present.

联合国通过《禁止一切形式种族歧视国际公约》半个多世纪后，关于是否将该公约的保护范围扩大到宗教歧视的争论出现了。本文利用历史来介入争论。它认为，种族和宗教差异在殖民遭遇中是相互构成的，也是现代国际法制定的基础。此外，当代解决种族和宗教差异相互作用的提议并不新鲜。这种需求的反复出现也在二十世纪初期出现。通过阐明种族宗教在殖民遭遇之外的中心地位，并记录欧洲“其他国家”为确保国际法律保护而失败的尝试，本文提出了在当前制定协调应对措施的理由。