Islam could be tolerated only in silent subjugation, never as an equal religion

Evidence

Lull was then torn between fear of his release and reluctance that he should be executed. He attributed this reluctance, not to human affection for his old companion, but to respect for the means by which he had learned the language in which he proposed to evangelise the world. It is to our mind appalling that he felt relieved from his dilemma by the slave’s suicide in prison. This unsympathetic story represents a general attitude; Islam could be tolerated only in silent subjection, the only final solution was its destruction. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 673

Categorization

• XREF: Directly corroborates the vault’s Islamophobia thread on how Islam is constructed as the West’s negation — here in Lull’s medieval form, where even a valued language teacher remains only a subject to be destroyed or silenced. — connects to: Muslims were constructed as equals only while their empires could not be dominated; Muslims cannot assimilate into a polity defined against Islam itself — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 311