Kazi frames Asian Islamophobia only through American policy, not on its own terms

Evidence

An historical exploration of British and American literature between 1690 and 1947 demonstrates the roots and qualities of Islamophobia that Britons and Americans have shared. Meanwhile significant differences between the perspectives found in the two countries demonstrate how these were fashioned by differing concerns about their own societies. In order to emphasize this difference, we choose to compare American views of Muslims with those found among Britons who had lived in India. In the latter context, predominantly white Christian Britons found themselves a minority in a land once ruled by successive Muslim rulers who left impressive vestiges of their once mighty empires. As a ruling elite, Britons had to adapt their Islamophobic inheritance to the exigencies of governing tens of millions of Muslims. In the United States, engagements with Muslims appeared to be a matter of international affairs alone, “Mohammedans” representing an “other” far more distant than the Jews, Catholics, and other religious minorities who lived among the Protestant majority. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 18 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Asian and American Islamophobia diverged according to each society’s domestic situation — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 18; Islamophobia is a US political weapon deployed through proxies in India and China

Related

• Asian and American Islamophobia diverged according to each society’s domestic situation (similarity 0.87)
• American Islamophobia equipped China and India to persecute their Muslim populations. (similarity 0.85)
• American Islamophobia borrowed British stereotypes because Americans had little contact with Muslims (similarity 0.84)
• Both Americans and Britons held Islam a perennial menace by its proselytizing and violence (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobia took different shapes in Britain and America because each faced different Muslim relations (similarity 0.83)
• Americans derived much of their Islamophobia from British colonial sources. (similarity 0.83)
• Britons in India refashioned inherited Islamophobia to serve colonial governance needs (similarity 0.82)
• South Asian Muslims held distinct views from their British rulers (similarity 0.81)
• Studying Anglo-American Islamophobia requires deliberately excluding South Asian perspectives (similarity 0.81)
• Anglo-American Islamophobia is not new, its roots demonstrated by an historical exploration of British and American literature between 1690 and 1947. (similarity 0.81)
• China and India adopted an American blueprint against their Muslims (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia and racial prejudice are entangled in distinct ways across Western contexts (similarity 0.80)
• Reifying Islam as a unified agent underwrote conspiracy theories of a pan-Indian jihad (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia adapts to each society’s own governing concerns (similarity 0.80)
• European Muslims’ lower class standing sharpens Islamophobia more than America’s (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Islamophobia is a US political weapon deployed through proxies in India and China #contradicts (0.85)
• Asian and American Islamophobia diverged according to each society’s domestic situation #contradicts (0.80) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 18