Subject religious minorities amplified anti-Islamic malice to win favor with Christian conquerors

Evidence

This sort of malice is likely to have been felt by ‘second-class citizens’ towards the master-race, especially when it was felt as having a religious justification; it would also only have been natural that they should wish to impress their orthodoxy and enthusiasm on the advancing and sometimes aggressive victors from Latin Christendom; they had every reason to wish to communicate hatred of and contempt for Islam (though not, of course, the remotest justification for doing so). — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2175

Categorization

• QUESTION: This psychological account of minority sycophancy toward a conquering majority is a provocative claim — could chase the evidence base for it in other conquest contexts.