The view of this inherent, ultimate conflict persisted into the twentieth century (and longer), especially in British India where missionaries from throughout the Anglo-American world labored. The…

The view of this inherent, ultimate conflict persisted into the twentieth century (and longer), especially in British India where missionaries from throughout the Anglo-American world labored. The Canadian Presbyterian missionary Wilson believed ‘There is ground for the opinion that the final struggle for the religious conquest of Eastern nations will be between Christianity and Islam.‘

Evidence

This Manichean vision of struggle between forces of light and darkness has left its legacy in apocalyptic depictions of Islam, alongside the Catholic Church, as vehicles of the Antichrist in opposition to evangelical truth. The recurring theme of the fear and threat of Islam in eighteenthto twentieth-century America, reinforced in this fashion by the perspective of British colonialism, helped to consolidate the concept of Islam as a single homogeneous whole, an essentialized portrait that was severed from any historical context. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 40 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Colonial commerce interests tempered missionary zeal against Islam in India (similarity 0.83)
• Americans derived much of their Islamophobia from British colonial sources. (similarity 0.81)
• Despite the shared conviction among many Britons and Americans that Islam stood in inherent antagonism to Christianity and the sentiment among some that it should be destroyed, Britons in India… (similarity 0.81)
• Americans and Britons alike viewed Islam as inherently expansionist and violent. (similarity 0.81)
• Anglo-American Islamophobia is not new, its roots demonstrated by an historical exploration of British and American literature between 1690 and 1947. (similarity 0.81)
• Commercial self-interest initially tempered Anglican missionary zeal in British India (similarity 0.81)
• The fear of Islam intensified amid Ottoman decline and colonial expansion (similarity 0.81)
• Anglo-American discourse framed Islam as Christianity’s inherent and inexorable nemesis. (similarity 0.81)
• Both Americans and Britons held Islam a perennial menace by its proselytizing and violence (similarity 0.80)
• British commercial interest checked missionary zeal in colonial India (similarity 0.80)
• Britons in India, unlike Americans, faced an active (if exaggerated) Muslim threat to their political order, yet both shared convictions regarding Islam’s coercive proselytizing and violent spread. (similarity 0.80)
• Although Britons in India differed from Americans because of the active (if exaggerated) threat to their political order, both shared a conviction regarding two alleged qualities of Islam that… (similarity 0.80)
• American Islamophobia borrowed British stereotypes because Americans had little contact with Muslims (similarity 0.80)
• American Islamophobia equipped China and India to persecute their Muslim populations. (similarity 0.79)
• British colonial ideology consolidated the essentialized idea of Islam as a homogeneous threat (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• British colonial ideology consolidated the essentialized idea of Islam as a homogeneous threat #expands (0.70) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 40
• Despite the shared conviction among many Britons and Americans that Islam stood in inherent antagonism to Christianity and the sentiment among some that it should be destroyed, Britons in India… #expands (0.65)
• Although Britons in India differed from Americans because of the active (if exaggerated) threat to their political order, both shared a conviction regarding two alleged qualities of Islam that… #expands (0.60)
• Commercial self-interest initially tempered Anglican missionary zeal in British India #expands (0.60) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 167
• While these Americans and Britons avoided any suggestion that someone, drawn by a positive characteristic of the religion, might willingly accept Islam, others argued that, if there had been a… #expands (0.60)
• In colonial America, many Protestants associated Islam and Catholicism with the Antichrist. Indeed, Prideaux related the rise of Muhammad and the bishop of Rome’s claim to reign over all churches.… #expands (0.50)