The Church subordinated conversion aims to Islam’s destruction while minimizing contact

Evidence

It is evident that Christendom recognised a relationship which aimed primarily at the destruction of Islam, and in which missionary endeavour held a subordinate place. For various reasons, moreover, it was the wish of the Church to reduce communication with Muslims to a minimum. With this in mind we may consider the habitual condemnation of Islam for its inherent violence and for its refusal to allow rational disputation. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 691

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates and expands the vault’s claim (Anidjar, Razack) that ‘Islam’ is constructed as the West’s constitutive outside — here the construction is explicitly martial and anti-dialogic, disavowing even the missionary contact the Crusade rhetoric claimed.
• SEED: Angles toward an essay on how the Church’s repudiation of dialogue with Islam contradicts modern assumptions that premodern Christendom at least tried to convert Muslims — the destruction-over-conversion priority is the surprising core.