A generalized affection for Muslims is what Islamophiles desire, but cannot quite achieve, because evidence of Muslim difference persists—in food and dress, in family structures, in gender ideologies, in attitudes toward domestic and foreign policy—and because wars against Muslim-majority states and Islamist militant groups constantly reanimate a time-tested imagery of crusade and jihad.

Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ Th…, loc. 708