Islamophobic argument templates propagated across authors and decades

Evidence

The repetition of his claims by later authors reflects the persistent popularity of Hunter’s perspectives. As W. A. Wilson, a Canadian missionary in Indore, made his own case for the distrustfulness of Muslims in 1911, he quoted Hunter, “The Mussulmans of India are and have been a source of chronic danger to the British power in India.” Wilson went further, claiming obliquely that, “There are many who doubt the loyalty of the Mohammedan people as a whole.” For evidence, Wilson followed Hunter by pointing to the so-called Wahhabi conspiracies, Qur’anic injunctions to overthrow infidel rule, and Muslim resistance on the northwest frontier. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 133

Categorization

• XREF: The template-and-repetition dynamic echoes how colonial tropes function as reusable rhetorical schemas, parallel to the soundscape book’s concept of lo-fi erasure of distinct signals — here one author’s claims get recycled verbatim as authoritative. — connects to: White supremacy’s defenses regenerate across knowledge domains when individual arguments fail — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 61; Court hearings can launder Islamophobic tropes into reusable official legal texts — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 390