A book indicting one regime can still attack the religion wholesale

Evidence

Perhaps, similarly, there is also some element in religion which is not religious; when this element comes to the surface, all concretized religious forms, in which there is true religion, may be destroyed. This is the inner dynamic of heresy and apostasy. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 852 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Even so, Halliday’s analysis falls short on two grounds. First, stereotypes about Islam as a religion do feed much of the Islamophobia that is rampant in the West. Islam is often equated in the media and in public discourse with terrorism, misogyny, backwardness, and so forth, and this is often done with Islam as a religion and an ideology in mind. Islam is attacked as a “faith,” even if such attacks, at least in Europe, are not primarily driven by the need to defend Christian truth claims. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 89 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Some volumes more than echo past perspectives: Answering Islam: The Crescent in Light of the Cross (1993, 2006), for instance, begins by citing Zwemer. This book’s goal of providing Christians with counterarguments to Islamic beliefs – “preparing you with strong apologetic answers” –reflects how the perpetuation of Islamophobia often represents more of an effort to positively define those making the allegations than accurately describe Muslims or Islam. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 124 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: A liberal-humanist stance toward novels can itself smuggle in Islamophobic assumptions; Anti-Muslim rhetoric still targets Islam as a religion, not just its adherents. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 89; Anti-Muslim polemics function to define their authors’ identity rather than describe Islam. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 124 (+1 more)

Related

• A Protestant-derived aesthetic of understated realism now underwrites ‘rational’ anti-Islamic prejudice. (similarity 0.86)
• Anti-Muslim rhetoric still targets Islam as a religion, not just its adherents. (similarity 0.84)
• Anti-Muslim polemics function to define their authors’ identity rather than describe Islam. (similarity 0.83)
• Anti-Muslim polemic functions primarily to define its Christian authors (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobic writing functions to define the Christian author, not describe Muslims (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia includes polite liberal variants, not only conservative conspiracy theories (similarity 0.80)
• Halliday argues modern hostility targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith. (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia is increasingly theorized as a form of racism rather than mere religious prejudice (similarity 0.79)
• Former Muslims validating anti-Muslim discourse claim insider authority. (similarity 0.79)
• Encyclopedists used Islam as a disguised symbol for criticizing Christianity (similarity 0.79)
• Criticizing the Iranian regime can mask an attack on Islam in general (similarity 0.79)
• Western hostility to Islam shifted from theological to political rationales across the centuries (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia includes a latent assumption of Muslim cultural inferiority to the secular West. (similarity 0.79)
• A genre of Islamophobia books falsely claims Islam is inherently violent and misogynist. (similarity 0.78)
• Anti-Islamophobia novels can themselves profit from trading in Muslim stereotypes. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Muslim rhetoric still targets Islam as a religion, not just its adherents. #corroborates (0.75) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 89
• A non-religious impulse within religion can destroy its own forms #complicates (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 852
• Anti-Muslim polemics function to define their authors’ identity rather than describe Islam. #corroborates (0.70) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 124
• A liberal-humanist stance toward novels can itself smuggle in Islamophobic assumptions #corroborates (0.60)