I recall in the 1980’s, a fellow graduate student an I were talking about Afghanistan. He cautioned me about becoming complacent about Muslims. It gave me food for thought.
In retrospect, he was exactly correct.
About a century ago, the fantasy writer Lord Dunsany wrote a short story about traveling to Sicily (he was Irish) and climbing an ancient tower. At the top of the tower he encountered a ghost who could not rest. It turns out that the ghost was constantly scanning the horizon to make sure the Saracen was not coming.
Dunsany, in the story, comforts the ghost and says that things have changed over the past 500 years. There is peace. The Saracen is not our enemy. The Saracen is not coming. The ghost can rest.
But the ghost shakes his head: "The Saracen is always coming."
For one of the oddly most truthful movies on Islam that you will see since it is sort of a Jeff Chandler Western of 1800 America and it has his girlfriend kidnapped by Muslims on the ocean and it shows Muslims as Americans used to know Islam, which was pretty accurate as a general sense of their world.
On youtube the movie is listed as ‘ACROSS THE BARBARY SEA’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYUeNXpGVjk
The movie is ‘Yankee Pasha’ 1954 and is well rated.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047684/