Roosevelt equated Muslim unrest in the Philippines with Native American rebellions.

Evidence

Early in the next century, President Theodore Roosevelt compared Muslims with a more domestic model of fanaticism when answering critics of his policies toward a rebellious minority in the Philippines: “To abandon the Moro country as our opponents propose in their platform, would be precisely as if twenty-five years ago we had withdrawn the Army and the civil agents from within and around the Indian reservations in the West, at a time when the Sioux and the Apache were still the terror of our settlers.” — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 85

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels settler-colonial logics that framed both Native Americans and Muslim Filipinos as a ‘terror’ requiring armed containment. — connects to: Theodore Roosevelt ranked Muslims an inferior people unfit for self-government — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 205; Early British anti-Muslim imagery was borrowed from Native American encounters — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 111; US empire’s conception of the Philippines as al-Qaeda territory targeted Filipino-Americans domestically
• SEED: An essay angle on how American imperial rhetoric reused frontier tropes of the vanishing/‘terrorizing’ native for overseas Muslim populations.

Broader Connections

• Theodore Roosevelt ranked Muslims an inferior people unfit for self-government #expands (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 205