American intellectuals historically exported anti-Muslim views as global ambassadors of prejudice.

Evidence

Columbia professor and public intellectual Dabashi makes the case that American intellectuals and cultural gatekeepers functioned as global ambassadors and exporters of anti-Muslim views without explicitly calling it “Islamophobia” or “global Islamophobia.” Iftikhar’s book, published more than a decade later, is unique in that it directly takes on Islamophobia as a global phenomenon with the aim of reaching general audiences. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1830

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the reading purpose’s companion text — Iftikhar’s Fear of a Muslim Planet — and situates it within the field alongside Dabashi.
• SEED: Could anchor an essay on how academic/pundit gatekeepers shaped the global diffusion of Islamophobia before the term itself existed.