Most Americans and Britons seemingly accepted that the inherent fanaticism of (male) Muslims produced their violent success.
Evidence
One answer that most Americans and Britons seemingly accepted was that the inherent fanaticism of (male) Muslims produced their violent success. According to the well respected and widely read Briton Claudius Buchanan (1807), Muslims were a “dagger-drawing people” who maintained a “vindictive spirit.” Smith, in 1835, opined that religious fanaticism was “the strongest principle of obedience in the Turkish citizen, and of bravery in the Turkish soldier.” — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 85 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Britons in India, unlike Americans, faced an active (if exaggerated) Muslim threat to their political order, yet both shared convictions regarding Islam’s coercive proselytizing and violent spread.; Anglo-American observers explained Muslim expansion as caused by inherent religious fanaticism. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 85; Both Americans and Britons held Islam a perennial menace by its proselytizing and violence (+9 more)
Related
- Anglo-American observers explained Muslim expansion as caused by inherent religious fanaticism. (similarity 0.92)
- Nineteenth-century Americans and Britons attributed Islam’s spread to coercion rather than persuasion. (similarity 0.92)
- Britons in India, unlike Americans, faced an active (if exaggerated) Muslim threat to their political order, yet both shared convictions regarding Islam’s coercive proselytizing and violent spread. (similarity 0.88)
- Americans and Britons alike viewed Islam as inherently expansionist and violent. (similarity 0.85)
- 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… (similarity 0.84)
- Both Americans and Britons held Islam a perennial menace by its proselytizing and violence (similarity 0.83)
- Christians attributed Muslim success to inherent fanaticism rather than their own failures. (similarity 0.82)
- Anglo-American observers explained Muslim expansion as violent coercion. (similarity 0.81)
- A minority of Americans and Britons valued Islam despite dominant fear-based publications. (similarity 0.81)
- Nearly half of Americans believed Islam encourages violence in 2010 (similarity 0.81)
- Americans derived much of their Islamophobia from British colonial sources. (similarity 0.81)
- Muslim male violence is framed as an innate Islamic or racial impulse (similarity 0.80)
- The claim that Muslims are intrinsically violent is sociologically inconceivable and unsupported. (similarity 0.79)
- American commentators read the 1857 uprising as a religious awakening of Islam against Britain (similarity 0.79)
- American belief that Islam encourages violence nearly doubled between 2001 and 2011. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Anglo-American observers explained Muslim expansion as caused by inherent religious fanaticism.
#corroborates(0.85) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 85 - Muslim male violence is framed as an innate Islamic or racial impulse
#corroborates(0.80) - Nineteenth-century Americans and Britons attributed Islam’s spread to coercion rather than persuasion.
#corroborates(0.75) - 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…
#expands(0.70) - Both Americans and Britons held Islam a perennial menace by its proselytizing and violence
#expands(0.60) - Nearly half of Americans believed Islam encourages violence in 2010
#exemplifies(0.55) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 565 - American belief that Islam encourages violence nearly doubled between 2001 and 2011.
#exemplifies(0.50) - Americans derived much of their Islamophobia from British colonial sources.
#expands(0.50) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 40 - Media framing shapes American attitudes toward Islam and jihad
#expands(0.45) — Asena Karipek, Portrayals of Jihad, 75 - Islamic religious piety inversely correlates with attraction to violent extremist groups.
#complicates(0.40) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 476 - A minority of Americans and Britons valued Islam despite dominant fear-based publications.
#qualifies(0.35) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 117