Muslim societies have always been internally divided like all others.

Evidence

Throughout history, Muslim societies (like all other societies) have been afflicted with any number of pressing problems. Over a long and tumultuous history, Muslims have been divided into sects and factions by their convictions and proclivities. Like Jews, Christians, and Hindus, they have been at one another’s throats since the time immemorial—jurists against theologians, theologians against philosophers, philosophers against mystics, revolutionaries against rulers, radicals against liberals against conservatives. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 435

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates Said’s point that the East is falsely rendered monolithically while the West is granted its internal conflicts.

Related

• Islamic civilization sustained vibrant internal doctrinal contestation and humanism. (similarity 0.83)
• Global Muslim practice is internally diverse across sects and regions. (similarity 0.82)
• Muslim societies have defined global geopolitics for over half a century (similarity 0.82)
• Western discourse reduces all Muslim societies to a single malevolent essence (similarity 0.82)
• Muslims have long practiced self-criticism within their own languages under their own names (similarity 0.81)
• Islamic doctrine has always been internally contested and reinterpreted (similarity 0.81)
• Unitary Islam as an analytical category explains little about diverse Muslim societies (similarity 0.80)
• Muslim-world upheavals are driven by social and economic factors, not by Islam (similarity 0.80)
• Islam’s internal practice varies by region, branch, and historical era (similarity 0.80)
• A coherent internal image of Islam survived because it was internally consistent (similarity 0.79)
• Western ideological camps all reduce Islam to a scapegoat (similarity 0.79)
• The reified notion of Islam has hindered rather than helped understanding of Muslim societies (similarity 0.79)
• Orientalism reduced multifaceted Muslim societies to a single doctrinal Islam (similarity 0.79)
• The term Islam misrepresents most diverse Muslim life (similarity 0.79)
• The West’s Muslims are fictional characters in a story about itself. (similarity 0.79)