The captive white woman is a Christian martyr figure menaced by dark-skinned cultists

Evidence

Willie, dressed in a virginal white dress, her hair adorned with a crown of roses, is shackled in a metal cage that is lowered toward the subterranean fire. Willie’s arms and legs are spread apart and held in shackles, to the delight of the cult followers, in a scene that is strongly suggestive of the rape of a white woman by a mob of angry, dark-skinned men. She strongly resembles Christ on the cross; even Willie’s headpiece resembles a crown of thorns. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 604

Categorization

• BMF: No genuine cross-domain match to the listed fiction library — this is thematic overlap with the reader’s Islamophobia inquiry rather than a specific plot resonance, so no BMF tag against the exact library.