Enemy societies get deformed into shared myths barely tied to fact

Evidence

Apparently, under the pressure of their sense of danger, whether real or imagined, a deformed image of their enemy’s beliefs takes shape in men’s minds. By misapprehension and misrepresentation an idea of the beliefs and practices of one society can pass into the accepted myths of another society in a form so distorted that its relation to the original facts is sometimes barely discernible. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 40

Categorization

• XREF: Directly corroborates the vault’s Islamophobia critical-race cluster — the same mechanism Said and Anidjar describe for how ‘Islam’ is produced as the West’s constitutive outside through misrepresentation.
• ADDENDUM: Generalizable mechanism behind all three existing articles’ subjects.