Colonisation was not specific to Islam or the Muslim world

Evidence

Despite this, colonialism occurred outside of and somewhat arbitrarily to the existence and presence of Islam. Indeed, colonialism was far from being an Islamo-specific process and so extensive areas that were non-Islamic including South and Central America were also colonised. Colonisation was not then unique to Islam or to the Muslim world although it is worth suggesting that because of Orientalism, it might have been that the colonisation of the Muslim world took on a different form and expression. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 195

Categorization

• XREF: This ‘not Islam-specific’ argument resonates with Halliday’s anti-Muslimism critique against singling out Islam; relevant to the definitional dispute this reading tracks. — connects to: Colonization was not Islam-specific but Orientalism shaped its distinct form; Colonial ‘reforming Islam’ meant forcibly secularising it — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 192; The belief that Muslims had different needs enabled colonial indifference. (+2 more)

Related

• Colonization was not Islam-specific but Orientalism shaped its distinct form (similarity 0.91)
• The belief that Muslims had different needs enabled colonial indifference. (similarity 0.87)
• The colonized colonizer outlook emerged fully by the 1870s (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial ‘reforming Islam’ meant forcibly secularising it (similarity 0.83)
• Contemporary anti-Western sentiment and Western Islamophobia both stem from the colonial legacy (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial powers sought to control rather than eradicate Islam (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalism differs from Hellenism by accompanying colonial conquest (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial expansion and Orientalist essentializing emerged together in the nineteenth century. (similarity 0.83)
• Western scholarship on Islam grew from positions of colonial dominance. (similarity 0.82)
• European awareness of Islam stems from direct colonial and demographic experience (similarity 0.82)
• Nineteenth-century Orientalism essentialized Muslims as intrinsically inferior during colonial expansion. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonialist reform of Islam meant secularising a presumed dying religion (similarity 0.82)
• Colonialism replaced Enlightenment universalism with a racialized superiority complex toward Muslims. (similarity 0.81)
• Western scholarly discourse about the Orient was entangled with colonial domination (similarity 0.81)
• Islamic Orientalism resisted internal critique while cognate fields engaged it. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination #exemplifies (0.85)
• The belief that Muslims had different needs enabled colonial indifference. #exemplifies (0.78)
• No common ground exists between colonized and colonizer in any colonial situation #complicates (0.75)