American rhetoric repeatedly fused Muslim identity with fanaticism

Evidence

Popular portrayals of Muslim Arabs, Turks, and Moros demonstrated the near universal association of fanaticism with Muslim men and helped to explain the initial expansion and contemporary entrenchedness of Islam. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 149

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A top commentator framed Muslim identity itself as a turn toward violence — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 607