Anti-Muslim animus united Federalists and Republicans at the Constitutional Convention.

Evidence

While the framers disagreed about and hotly debated matters ranging from the breadth (or limits) of federal power to the sovereignty of the states, anti-Muslim animus was not a wedge issue. It was a matter that unified the fiercest rivals at the Constitutional Convention and beyond. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 165

Categorization

• XREF: A domestic, nativist origin for Islamophobia that parallels the naturalization/‘race’ cases — one of the reader’s guiding questions. — connects to: When John Dickinson, delegate to both the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention, described the advancement of nations, he (mistakenly) noted that the Portuguese arrival in India disrupted the advent of Muslim power. This proved providential since “there [is] the least reason to question, that they would have strenuously employed the increase of wealth and power in their favourite design of reducing all Christendom to the same miserable slavery, with which by their oppressive superstition, so many celebrated parts of it, including the Birthplace of its religion, have already been overwhelmed.”; Anti-Muslim sentiment spans opposing political groups, not just white conservatives; Founders disagreed sharply on the West; Federalists like Hamilton opposed westward expansion — The West and the Promise of Equal Opportunity (+1 more)
• SEED: Angles for an essay: the one issue that united America’s founders — anti-Muslim consensus as a founding myth, not a later corruption.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 165

Broader Connections

• Anti-Muslim sentiment spans opposing political groups, not just white conservatives #corroborates (0.90)