Locke's comments voiced three aspects of contemporary Anglo-American Islamophobia. First, that the Ottomans represented an exemplar of bad government and, second, that Muslims offered a nascent threat (of varying degrees according to the author) to every non-Muslim political order under whose jurisdiction they lived. Third, Locke, like Jefferson and the citizens of Chesterfield County, expressed the possibility that (at least some) Muslims could coexist under a non-Muslim government.

DEFINE: Clarifies that 18th-century Anglo-American Islamophobia had three distinct strands, one of which was a conditional willingness to permit Muslim coexistence. Builds on: "Prideaux's polemic shaped British and American views of Islam."

Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ Th…, loc. 122