Huntington’s clash theory targeted all 1.7 billion Muslims, not just extremists.

Evidence

Huntington’s clash of civilizations theory did not narrowly pit the United States against “Islamic fundamentalism” or “Middle Eastern terrorists.” Rather, the clash Huntington theorized was against the whole of Islam, a faith practiced by 1.7 billion people, millions of them in the United States. Like his Orientalist predecessors, Huntington viewed Islam as a malignant monolith, writing that “Islam’s borders are bloody and so are its innards.” In the same way that Europeans and Americans invented the Orient, Huntington constructed an “Islamic civilization” that was based on essentialist myths, arcane stereotypes, and most absurdly, a homogenization of a supremely diverse region. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 228

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precisely qualifies what Huntington’s theory encompassed — the whole faith, not a subset — central to how structural Islamophobia got its intellectual justification.
• XREF: The ‘1.7 billion’ monolith framing parallels Rana’s account of the apparatus and Selod’s surveillance-based construction of suspect Muslims. — connects to: Huntington asserts Islam is inherently prone to violence and bloodshed — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 224; Huntington declared all of Islam, not just fundamentalism, the West’s existential threat. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 226; Huntington’s clash-of-civilizations thesis came to frame the entire War on Terror. (+3 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 228

Broader Connections

• Huntington framed all of Islam as the West’s civilizational problem in 1993. #corroborates (0.70)
• Huntington’s clash-of-civilizations thesis came to frame the entire War on Terror. #expands (0.50)
• Anti-Muslim suspicion targets all Muslims, not just violent extremists #qualifies (0.45) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 540