Christians attributed violence to Islam while practicing holy war themselves

Evidence

The salient elements in Muhammad’s life, or in the Christian legend of his life, were reflected in the concept of Islam as a practical religion. Like its Prophet, it was said to be violent by nature and this was said despite the reflection on Crusading theory of the Islamic doctrine of the holy war. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1530

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Aziz’s Racial Muslim and Anidjar’s Jew-Arab genealogy: the West’s constitutive outside requires Islam be figured as inherently violent while the West’s own violence is disavowed.