Mass Christian conversion to Islam forced Christians to view Muslims as religious rivals

Evidence

It was only after a significant number of Christians converted to Islam that Christian authors began to view Muslims not simply as God-ordained military adversaries but as religious rivals. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 124

Categorization

• XREF: This is the hinge the reader seeks: conversion pressure turning military adversary into rival — a candidate from the religious to people-to-religion sphere. — connects to: Islam threatened Christianity because it mounted a rival revelatory claim — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 64; Although Britons in India differed from Americans because of the active (if exaggerated) threat to their political order, both shared a conviction regarding two alleged qualities of Islam that made it a perennial menace: the proclivity of Muslims to spread their religion and to do so violently. In their reflections on the proselytizing power of Muslims – an issue among Europeans since at least the eighth century when predominantly Christian north Africa and Spain converted almost entirely to Islam – Americans and Britons almost universally explained mass conversion as the result of coercion.; The successful resistance of Muslims to conversion and flourishing Islamic proselytizing seemed twin roadblocks to the cherished goal of Christianizing humanity. Without any apparent sense of irony, Hume wrote, ‘We are well aware that Mohammedans, wherever found, constitute a difficult, and hitherto a comparatively unfruitful field…They regard themselves as God’s peculiar people, and look with feelings of hatred and contempt upon all opposing religions.’ (+3 more)
• SEED: Angle: the conversion dynamics of medieval Spain as the moment a military threat became a doctrinal one.

Broader Connections

• Although Britons in India differed from Americans because of the active (if exaggerated) threat to their political order, both shared a conviction regarding two alleged qualities of Islam that… #exemplifies (0.75)
• Islam threatened Christianity because it mounted a rival revelatory claim #expands (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 64
• The successful resistance of Muslims to conversion and flourishing Islamic proselytizing seemed twin roadblocks to the cherished goal of Christianizing humanity. Without any apparent sense of… #exemplifies (0.60)