Church discipline doctrines manufactured Muslim monsters out of inherited imagery

Evidence

North American medievalists have identified the twelfth and thirteenth centuries with the emergence of a “persecuting society,” described as a “Foucaldian Panopticon of discipline and colonization” that sought to discipline and punish those who dissented from the Church’s teachings. Muslim monsters didn’t suddenly emerge in these centuries. Disciplinary practices engendered an increased reliance on the imagination that sustained the monsters of antiquity and inspired new monsters. The medieval Christian Church’s practices of exclusion and punitive discipline as a matter of theological doctrine resulted in the emergence of Muslim monsters and other fantastic creatures. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 84

Categorization

• QUESTION: The causal chain stated is thin — how exactly does punitive discipline translate into new monster imagery? Worth probing the missing mechanism.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s thesis that the manufactured monster is a projection container — the Church’s own internal discipline against heretics gets projected outward onto Saracens. — connects to: the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”