Alienness of permitted practice made the assumption easy to believe

Evidence

That assumption must have been so easily believed only because it heightened the concept of a society hideously alien in what it permitted. In one way and another Islam was made to seem repellent, either as unlike or else as actually contrary to all the most important Christian teaching. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1475

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to Razack’s account of how ‘honor killing’/gender-violence discourse is readily believed about Muslims precisely because it confirms prior framing.