European imperial channels transmitted Islamophobic frameworks westward to North America

Evidence

The third and final dimension of Anglo-American Islamophobia demonstrated by the example of Prideaux and Voltaire’s works is how certain lines of communication facilitated the transcontinental transmission of Islamophobic ideas. Given the popular authority of those with personal experience of Muslims and the British empire’s involvement with Muslim communities across the world, information and opinions often flowed westward across the Atlantic. Clearly, Britain and the other European powers with a stake in North America contributed the seeds for the first sad blossoms of Islamophobia there. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 108

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the transmission-of-ideas mechanism seen in the soundscape and communication-culture readings — networks shaping what beliefs spread. — connects to: Early British anti-Muslim imagery was borrowed from Native American encounters — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 111