British colonial ideology consolidated the essentialized idea of Islam as a homogeneous threat

Evidence

With nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Orientalism, increasing numbers of scholars, authors, and artists were convinced that Muslims belonged to a once great but now separate and intrinsically inferior civilization, one that not only lacked complexity and diversity but also offered little to benefit Western civilization. The fact that the tendency to essentialize Muslims in this way emerged at a time of significant European colonial expansion suggests that Orientalism was neither a disinterested enterprise nor an objective quest for knowledge of non-Western cultures and religions. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 201 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In offi- cial missives the terms “Gayo” and “Acehnese” were distinguished in some accounts, but used interchangeably in others. How did Valck and his fellow reporters know how to tell a Gayo thief in the night from an Acehnese dissident? As we shall see, these terms often served to mark not ethnic identity but the degree of threat to this new colonial enterprise, those whose actions were to be classified as “common criminal” or “insurgent rebel.” — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1100 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: The belief that Muslims had different needs enabled colonial indifference.; Postwar Europe’s Muslim population traced to French and British colonial ties — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 336; The roots of Islamic terrorism may lie in colonialism and Western intervention. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 37 (+20 more)

Related

• The belief that Muslims had different needs enabled colonial indifference. (similarity 0.87)
• The fear of Islam intensified amid Ottoman decline and colonial expansion (similarity 0.85)
• Nineteenth-century Orientalism essentialized Muslims as intrinsically inferior during colonial expansion. (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial expansion and Orientalist essentializing emerged together in the nineteenth century. (similarity 0.85)
• Contemporary anti-Western sentiment and Western Islamophobia both stem from the colonial legacy (similarity 0.83)
• Colonization was not Islam-specific but Orientalism shaped its distinct form (similarity 0.83)
• The colonized colonizer outlook emerged fully by the 1870s (similarity 0.83)
• Even the most learned, sympathetic Orientalists converged on Islam’s latent inferiority (similarity 0.82)
• British Islamophobia intensified only when Muslims ceased to be a safely declining power (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial powers sought to control rather than eradicate Islam (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial census logic ethnicized Islam by equating ‘Islamic’ with ‘Malay’ (similarity 0.82)
• The roots of Islamic terrorism may lie in colonialism and Western intervention. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonialism replaced Enlightenment universalism with a racialized superiority complex toward Muslims. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonialist reform of Islam meant secularising a presumed dying religion (similarity 0.81)
• Late-nineteenth-century Orientalists directly advised colonial governments on Muslim populations (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Nineteenth-century Orientalism essentialized Muslims as intrinsically inferior during colonial expansion. #corroborates (0.60) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 201
• British Islamophobia intensified only when Muslims ceased to be a safely declining power #expands (0.55)
• Colonial ethnic labels measured threat level rather than actual ethnicity #corroborates (0.50) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1100