Science fiction film casts Muslim-coded figures as lovers of death who force conversion

Evidence

Not since the crusades on earth has such damage been done by theological dogma. Known as lovers of death, Necromongers perpetrate their own unholy war with a viciousness and finality never seen before on any world at any time. To each civilization driven to its knees, they offer a simple choice—convert or die. Unfortunately for the converts, those who choose death may meet the gentler fate. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 700

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s core thesis: the ‘Muslim monster’ figure — here ‘lovers of death’ and forced conversion — manufactured in pop culture. Links to the medieval ‘convert or die’ trope and to post-9/11 discourse.
• SEED: The ‘convert or die’ framing in Chronicles of Riddick as a direct inheritance from medieval crusade rhetoric about Islam.