Exactly. The assertion that they are and the assertion that they aren’t both fall apart because they both make assumptions about someone else’s beliefs.
But I am not making either assertion. I am saying, and will continue to say, that beliefs run the full spectrum within a single religion.
The idea that this is just a xenophobic fantasy represents 1) an America-centric worldview and 2) a Christian-centric worldview. It gives no agency whatsoever to Muslims to choose what they want to believe, and I find that part to be ludicrous and arrogant.
