As an Americanist, I’d like to clarify that Islam is an American/western religion as well (inasmuch as those distinctions are useful), though I absolutely concur about the Protestant and Catholic underpinnings of western imperialism. With regard to the ways a Protestant emphasis on religion-as-belief informs American foreign policy and military incursion, see in particular Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015).

As an Americanist, I’d like to clarify that Islam is an American/western religion as well (inasmuch as those distinctions are useful), though I absolutely concur about the Protestant and Catholic underpinnings of western imperialism. With regard to the ways a Protestant emphasis on religion-as-belief informs American foreign policy and military incursion, see in particular Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015).