Essentialist claims about Islam collapse when tested against European history.

Evidence

For Ye’or, there is only one Islam, a single fanaticism that has remained unchanged since the era of the Prophet, now intent on reducing a cowed Europe to vassal status. As an analysis of contemporary European history, this is flat-out barking gibberish, which falls somewhere between hyper-Zionist propaganda, at UNIV OF WISCONSIN on July 20, 2012 rac. — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 40

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the essentialist ‘one Islam’ move as the analytical error under critique.
• SEED: An essay on essentialism as a rhetorical shortcut in civilizational polemics could use this as a hinge example.