Christian violence is individualized while Muslim violence is collectivized.

Evidence

Muslims’ racialized identities are in stark contrast to Americans’ association of Christianity with peace, civilization, charity, and forgiveness, notwithstanding a historical record of violence in the name of Christianity. That Christianity is treated as normal and Islam as aberrant causes wayward Christians to be treated as individuals while Muslims’ wrongdoings represent the threat of the entire group. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 185

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors the asymmetric individual/group attribution pattern in Noelle-Neumann’s work and in media framing research on Muslims. — connects to: Christian violence is never generalized to all Christians, but Muslim violence is. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 354; Islamophobic ideology selectively attributes violence to religion only in the Muslim case. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 354; Only Muslim violence is read as caused by the perpetrators’ religion — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 366 (+1 more)
• SEED: Article angle: the attribution asymmetry between in-group and out-group wrongdoers as a general rhetorical mechanism across nationalisms.