Conversionist love of Muslims coexisted with desire for Islam’s destruction

Evidence

Many Americans and Britons drew the ultimate conclusion to this Christian Islamophobia: Islam had to be destroyed. Muslims needed to be converted for the sake of their souls. As Hume had asked, “Shall we be content to leave the followers of the false prophet to perish in their pride and unbelief? No, surely. Mohammedans, as well as the heathen, have been given to Christ for his inheritance; and for their conversion the church of Christ must labor and pray.” — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 162

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• XREF: The ‘love the sinner, hate the sin’ structure — a genuinely benevolent urge to save souls fused with an urge to destroy the faith — is a psychological paradox worth holding against modern humanitarian-interventionist rhetoric.