Lewis attributed Muslim animosity to jealousy over Western dominance
Evidence
Lewis ends his article with a section titled “A Clash of Civilizations.” Here he finally explains the real cause of Muslim animosity toward the West: jealousy and humiliation in light of the dominance of Western civilization. Two Western developments in particular, secularism and modernism, have been the specific targets of Muslim anger. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 218
Categorization
- QUESTION: The jealousy-and-humiliation thesis is a striking psychological claim — worth holding up against alternative explanations the author may offer later.
- XREF: connects to: Lewis located Muslim hostility in Islam rather than Western conduct — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 217; Bernard Lewis supplied the clash of civilizations thesis to American foreign policy — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 213; Lewis dates the Islam-West rivalry to the seventh century and its reversal to 1683 — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 216 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Lewis’s Orientalist framework reduces Muslims to a monolithic, irrational, enraged mass
#expands(0.70) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 220 - Bernard Lewis justified the essentialist category of Islamic terrorism
#expands(0.50) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 398 - Islamophobic provocation aims to elicit rage that confirms Muslim stereotypes
#contradicts(0.50) - Lewis argued Islam inherently tends toward fundamentalist violence.
#expands(0.40)