The Muslim trope of perpetual treachery predates modern Orientalism

Evidence

The Muslim, his color and culture a warning against his ever-potential treachery, came to be read as inevitably hostile, aggressive, engaged for religious purpose in constant jihad against Europe and Christianity in particular, and later the west and its supposed secularist leanings more generally. This orientalism became racially historicized in the wake of European colonial domination in the Middle East especially in the latter half of the nineteenth century. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 860

Categorization

• QUESTION: Goldberg slides from tropes to ‘constant jihad’ — worth chasing how this long history of the treachery trope recurs in contemporary security discourse.