Reconquest and Muslim resistance each rested on unquestioned moral entitlement.

Evidence

Writers need the leeway to address any and all matters of concern, in particular those in which they feel a personal investment. However, Aslam’s response indicates the extent to which the default expectations engendered by topicality are never neutral, least of all when the subject matter is what is commonly deemed Muslim religious or cultural behavior. In the hands of more ideological writers, the moral imperative to address injustice becomes almost inseparable from wholesale endorsement of the neoimperial civilizing mission of the United States. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 26 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Christian reconquest overlapped with the Muslim advance from the start; Both Christians and Muslims internalized the moral-contrast trope about their two faiths — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1483; US interventions in the Middle East needed moral justifications rooted in anti-Islam narratives — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 99 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The moral imperative to address Muslim injustice can slide into endorsing Western civilizing missions #complicates (0.74) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 26