In colonial America, many Protestants associated Islam and Catholicism with the Antichrist. 73 Indeed, Prideaux considered related the rise of Muhammad and the bishop of Rome’s claim to reign over all churches. Hence, the “ Antichrist seems at this time to have set both his Feet upon Christendom together, the one in the East , and the other in the West .”

XREF: Connects to early American religious history and Protestant polemics against both Islam and Rome as twin antichrist figures. Builds on: "British and American writers both feared Islam's violent proselytizing"

Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ Th…, loc. 166