Muslim dog-men outnumbered Jewish ones because Islam posed a military threat

Evidence

However, Jews weren’t marching armies into Christian capitals. They were not a threat to the elites in the way the Muslim empires were. Thus, as Richard Southern suggests, it was easy for Christianity to dismiss the Jewish challenge because of the “economic and social inferiority of the Jews.” In other words, Jews did not have the social, economic, or political power to threaten Christendom. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 65 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

When Europe, spiritually united under the leadership of the Vatican, began to fracture along national lines, the focus shifted away from the Muslim enemy. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries therefore saw a turn away from polemic toward indifference—until the Ottoman Empire began to advance into Europe in the early sixteenth century, heralding a new threat. This time, however, the enemy was seen as a secular and political threat rather than a religious one. The Ottomans were presented as Europeans of sorts and admired for their many accomplishments; European rulers forged alliances with them against other European rivals. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 95 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

What Christians now confronted was a religion that was similar to theirs but that challenged the primacy of their belief system. The God of Christianity is the same God of Abraham worshiped in Islam, but Christianity claims that God’s revelation in Jesus marked the end of revelation and of prophecy. Islam makes a similar claim but argues that Muhammad was the last prophet who received the final and correct Word of God. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 64 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dog-headed men served medieval art as both Jew and Muslim monsters of evil; Islam’s demonization varied with its military threat to Christendom — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 65; The image of Muslims shifted with military threat, not with religion per se — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 95 (+3 more)

Related

• Islam’s demonization varied with its military threat to Christendom (similarity 0.88)
• Islam’s military threat explains why Muslim dog-men outnumber Jewish ones in medieval texts (similarity 0.87)
• Dog-headed men served medieval art as both Jew and Muslim monsters of evil (similarity 0.82)
• Medieval Christendom defined itself by expelling threatening forces beyond its perimeter (similarity 0.81)
• Anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim imagery differed in frequency because of political threat levels (similarity 0.81)
• The image of Muslims shifted with military threat, not with religion per se (similarity 0.80)
• Islam threatened Christianity because it mounted a rival revelatory claim (similarity 0.80)
• Christian institutions constructed the Muslim enemy to maintain their own power. (similarity 0.80)
• Christians read celestial portents as harbingers of Muslim invasion. (similarity 0.79)
• Medieval passion plays made Muhammad the god of Christ’s Jewish and Roman tormentors (similarity 0.78)
• Theological explanations blamed Christian corruption and cast Muslims as God’s punishing instrument (similarity 0.78)
• Jews and Muslims shared the dog-headed monster linked to the devil in Christendom (similarity 0.78)
• Christians treated all non-Christian monstrous figures as interchangeable enemies (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Islam’s demonization varied with its military threat to Christendom #corroborates (0.90) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 65
• The image of Muslims shifted with military threat, not with religion per se #corroborates (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 95
• Islam threatened Christianity because it mounted a rival revelatory claim #contradicts (0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 64
• Church persecution as doctrine caused the emergence of Muslim monsters #expands (0.50)
• Medieval Christian infighting outweighed the shared threat of Islam #qualifies (0.40) — Ali Qureshi, The Fall of Constantinople, 45