Medieval Christians lumped Jews and Muslims together as carnal and sensual peoples

Evidence

Both Jews and Muslims were seen by medieval Christians as people who privileged the carnal over the spiritual, not only epistemologically (in their preference for the dead letter of the law above the living spirit of faith) but also behaviorally (in their propensity toward sensuous pleasures and sexual deviance). — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 228

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the immodesty moral-panics article: carnal versus spiritual framing reappears in dress panics and sexual deviance claims. — connects to: Muslims held that Jews and Christians corrupted their scriptures; Muslims rejected the Trinity as polytheism and carnal generation; Christians and Muslims historically rejected each other’s fasting as not genuine fasting — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1226