Contemporary anti-Western sentiment and Western Islamophobia both stem from the colonial legacy

Evidence

The impact of colonialism and neocolonialism on the relationship between Islam and the West should not be underestimated. Many Muslims in the Middle East and in other Muslim-majority regions blame their political and economic struggles today on past as well as present interference from the West. The anti-Western sentiment that one encounters in these countries cannot be understood apart from the legacy of colonialism, just as any adequate analysis of contemporary Western discourse about Muslims and Islam must take into account the West’s past and present colonial enterprises and imperial designs in the Muslim world. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 182

Categorization

• XREF: This is the causal bridge the reader wants: colonialism as hinge linking medieval polemics to post-9/11 Islamophobia. — connects to: Fear of extremist propaganda drove colonial surveillance expansion in French West Africa; The First World War era sparked anti-colonial stirrings across Asia and Africa; The roots of Islamic terrorism may lie in colonialism and Western intervention. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 37 (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• Islamophobia began as colonial administrators’ anti-Muslim views across French west Africa #expands (0.65) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 484
• British colonial ideology consolidated the essentialized idea of Islam as a homogeneous threat #corroborates (0.60)
• Orientalist Muslim dehumanization legitimizes colonial and imperial adventures #corroborates (0.55) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 44
• Americans derived much of their Islamophobia from British colonial sources. #corroborates (0.55) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 40
• Interpersonal colonial hostility mirrors opposing stances on European pretension #expands (0.50)
• Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim #corroborates (0.50)