Western press praised illiberal Christianity but blamed only Islam for violence.

Evidence

One need only remember the effusive treatment by the liberal press of patently illiberal religious figures like Solzhenitsyn or Pope John Paul II, and the way the massacres of Muslims in Bosnia was not ascribed to Christianity, to see how one-sidedly hostile the attitude to Islam was. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 158

Related

• Violence by Western actors is never blamed on Christianity or Western culture (similarity 0.84)
• Islam’s military success forced Christians to reinterpret church history as corruption (similarity 0.83)
• Interrogating Western-ness is required to expunge Islamophobia (similarity 0.83)
• Western ideological camps all reduce Islam to a scapegoat (similarity 0.83)
• Medieval Christian polemics could only read Islam as affirming or negating Christianity (similarity 0.82)
• Christians attributed violence to Islam while practicing holy war themselves (similarity 0.82)
• Leading Western newspapers would never print such venom about Christianity or Judaism, only Islam (similarity 0.81)
• Western discourse reduces all Muslim societies to a single malevolent essence (similarity 0.81)
• Western anti-Muslim and Islamic anti-Western narratives reinforce each other (similarity 0.81)
• Press singled out Islam while ignoring identical views among Israeli religious authorities. (similarity 0.81)
• Even the most knowledgeable Christian writers exaggerated Islam’s internal conflicts (similarity 0.81)
• Eighteenth-century European writers attacked Islam mainly to attack Christianity (similarity 0.81)
• Western commentators treated eight hundred million Muslims as one undifferentiated thing (similarity 0.81)
• Enlightenment praise of Islam extended the mediaeval attack on infidels to Christianity itself (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval theologians neutralized Muslim success by holding it a just chastisement of Christian sin (similarity 0.81)