For Islam isolated violence offsets billions of peaceful examples, but not for white Christianity.

Evidence

The result of this double standard is that for Islam, particular examples of violence may offset literally billions of peaceful counterexamples. But with Christianity, centuries of dedication to the forceful preservation of white supremacy, and growing white Christian extremism today, aren’t enough to demand serious moral concern about the religion. The right-wing assertion that Islam is “not a religion” but a violent ideology could easily find traction if turned around and applied equally and honestly to Christianity. Even when it is no longer deniable that Christian theology underwrote and justified the white supremacist right to “[wring] their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces,” as Abraham Lincoln put it, and thereafter the right to segregate African Americans into a permanent underclass by the force of law and lynching, white Christians point to a corrupt culture rather than a compromised Christianity. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 232

Categorization

• XREF: This inverted epistemic standard maps onto the library’s recurring motif that perception of a group (Muslims, colonized peoples) is driven by stereotype discounting rather than base rates — echoing material on Islamophobia and racialization found in many prior books. — connects to: Violence by one Muslim is generalized to all while Christian violence is not — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 54; Whiteness is culturally disassociated from terrorism despite committing comparable atrocities.; Christian violence is never generalized to all Christians, but Muslim violence is. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 354 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Christian violence is never generalized to all Christians, but Muslim violence is. #corroborates (0.98) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 354
• Violence by one Muslim is generalized to all while Christian violence is not #exemplifies (0.95) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 54
• Christian violence is individualized while Muslim violence is collectivized. #exemplifies (0.95) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 185
• Whiteness is culturally disassociated from terrorism despite committing comparable atrocities. #corroborates (0.90)
• Cultural racism explains Muslim violence through religion rather than lived circumstances #expands (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 621