The medieval libel framed Islam as a carnal cult for carnal people

Evidence

It is a carnal cult for a carnal people: its physical rites contrast with the spiritual sacraments of Christianity; its polygamy and celestial fornication, with the purity of the Christian priesthood. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 883

Categorization

• XREF: This is the deep genealogy of the sensual-Orientalist trope found in Aziz/Razack — the modern claim that Islam = licentious bodily indulgence descends verbatim from twelfth-century polemicist Alan of Lille.