Muslims were cast as apocalyptic beasts within Christian eschatology.

Evidence

So, when Fox claimed that the growth of the Quaker community demonstrated its credibility, Williams retorted that Islam and Roman Catholicism had grown equally as quickly. Elsewhere, Williams wrote of his anticipation that the destruction of Islam and Catholicism would coincide, along with the mass conversion of the Jews, with the apocalypse. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 99 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Muslims were ideologically collapsed into heretics, Jews, and the devil by Christian writers.; Medieval Muslim-monster imagery persists today through Gothic horror and Orientalism; Early Protestant polemicists linked Islam with Catholicism and Judaism as apocalyptic rivals. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 99 (+2 more)

Related

• Early Protestant polemicists linked Islam with Catholicism and Judaism as apocalyptic rivals. (similarity 0.90)
• In colonial America, many Protestants associated Islam and Catholicism with the Antichrist. Indeed, Prideaux related the rise of Muhammad and the bishop of Rome’s claim to reign over all churches.… (similarity 0.84)
• Theological explanations blamed Christian corruption and cast Muslims as God’s punishing instrument (similarity 0.82)
• Christians lumped Islam with Catholicism and Mormonism as rival heretical faiths (similarity 0.82)
• Since the early medieval period, Christendom largely viewed Islam as a Christian heresy and Muhammad as a false prophet, a servant of Satan, or the Antichrist. (similarity 0.82)
• Prideaux related the rise of Muhammad and the bishop of Rome’s claim to reign over all churches. Hence, the Antichrist seems at this time to have set both his Feet upon Christendom together, the… (similarity 0.82)
• Medieval depictions of Islam as heresy served to justify violence and resist conversion (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval Christian polemic framed Islam alongside heresy and Judaism (similarity 0.81)
• Muslims were ideologically collapsed into heretics, Jews, and the devil by Christian writers. (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval Christian apocalypticism ranked the new Islamic conquests beneath older prophecies of doom (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval Christians read the Antichrist prophecy as prefiguring Islam (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval authors mislabelled Islamic Christian and Jewish influences as heretical sects (similarity 0.80)
• Christians treated all non-Christian monstrous figures as interchangeable enemies (similarity 0.80)
• Islam threatened Christianity because it mounted a rival revelatory claim (similarity 0.80)
• Early Protestant writers framed Islam’s rise as divine punishment for corrupted churches. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Early Protestant polemicists linked Islam with Catholicism and Judaism as apocalyptic rivals. #expands (0.60) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 99
• Medieval Muslim-monster imagery persists today through Gothic horror and Orientalism #expands (0.55)