Faces of the Muslim Enemy_Presentation Part I.pdf

“Mahomet, with the
sword in one hand
[and] the Koran in
the other, erected
his throne on the
ruins of Christianity
and of Rome.”
Edward Gibbon, The History
of the Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire (1776)
Illustration of the Prophet Muhammad taken
from Humphrey Prideaux’s La vie de Mahomet
(1699)

William Blake, watercolor, Gustave 1826-27 Doré, engraving, 1860

Leon Jean Auguste Belly, oil Dominique on canvas, Ingres, 1861 oil on Henri canvas, Regnault, 1839 oil on canvas, 1870

“Turk as Barbarian” 1897
Judge magazine, 1903

Synthesis of a Negative Social Atmosphere

Rhetorical tropes and modes of persuasion
Synecdoche: A figure of speech in which a part of something
represents the whole or the whole represents a part; a specific thing
refers to a general class or a general class refers to a specific thing.
Examples: “hands” in reference to workers, “England” in reference to
the entire UK, “steel” in place of sword, “John Hancock” for a
signature, “wheels” for a car, “the Good Book” for the Bible.
Metonymy: A figure of speech in which a thing or concept is
represented not by itself but rather by something closely associated
with that thing or concept. Examples: “Washington” for the US
government, “Wall Street” for the American finance industry.
Pathos: An appeal to audiences’ emotions, sympathies, and
imagination with the intent of persuading them to see things the way
the author does.

The Enemy as
Criminal or
Sociopath

The Irrational, Incomprehensible Enemy

The Enemy as
Threat to
Civilization