A minority of Americans and Britons valued Islam despite dominant fear-based publications.

Evidence

It must be reemphasized that not all Americans or Britons shared extreme Islamophobic sentiments. Some positively valued the religion and the cultures associated with it. Some converted, as apparently had the New Yorker Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb. However, the preponderance of publications from the late eighteenth to the middle of the twentieth century demonstrate recurring themes of fear and threat beyond the sentiments of disapproval and loathing also present. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 117

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to contemporary scholarship on Islamophobia and the counter-narrative of individual converts like Alexander Russell Webb. — connects to: Most Americans and Britons seemingly accepted that the inherent fanaticism of (male) Muslims produced their violent success.; Diminished Muslim threat let British observers admire Mughal culture despite Orientalist negative stereotypes. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 52; Muslims exceed five percent of American doctors yet remain excluded from the fearful image — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 23 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Muslims exceed five percent of American doctors yet remain excluded from the fearful image #exemplifies (0.60) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 23