The West relegates all Muslims along with other non-whites to a shared medieval past.

Evidence

In the case of Al Qaeda, the bifurcation of the world is understood in terms of Dar al Islam and Dar al Harb—the abode of Islam and the abode of war. By following a medieval ideology, Muslims place themselves in the past—the same space in which the West has deemed that all Muslims, American Indians, Africans, and other non-whites live. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 634

Categorization

• XREF: The temporal confinement of non-whites to a shared ‘past’ connects to the reader’s framing that the image precedes contact and functions as a container — parallels Toni Morrison’s argument about Africanist presence and colonial-era temporal othering.
• DEFINE: Defines Dar al Islam / Dar al Harb and how a ‘medieval ideology’ charges places Muslims in the past.