For British and American audiences, the menace of Islam existed at a variety of different levels. Politically, socially, religiously, and theologically, Muslims and their religion were seen to threaten in varying degrees and in different ways Britain and America, secularism and Christianity.

Builds on: "Muslims and Islam served as flexible foils for divergent agendas"

Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon F…, loc. 41