Western desire to domesticate Muslim cultures is marked by Islamophobic estrangement.

Evidence

For Muslim societies, in contrast, the Western desire to claim and domesticate them remains but is always marked by an Islamophobic estrangement that gives that desire a certain urgency and aligns it with existing discourses of civilizational threat. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 243

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: When Islam itself is deemed the problem, assimilation demands its excision. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 296