"... perhaps the most extreme form of bare life, is the Muselmann or ‘Muslim’. The ‘Muslim’ was the camp jargon for the inmate reduced to a state of living death, and the term seems to come from the European and Western fantasy of fatalism imputed to Muslims. One survivor of the camps described a ‘Muslim’ as ‘a staggering corpse, a bundle of physical functions in its last convulsions’.
What we find in Auschwitz that is so unbearable is, according to [Giorgio] Agamben, life reduced to mere biological existence. This can be found in the terrible experience of the Muselmann or ‘Muslim’, who is reduced by starvation and suffering to the state of a living death.
No one can bear the sight of the "Muslim".
( No one can bear the sight of the Muslim )