Marie Claude:

Concerning 1898, here are a few online references.

The year of the war, 1898, was, says Roger, the catalyst of French anti-Americanism, when popular opinion of all political stripes was united in condemnation and created a discourse that imprinted itself on the subsequent generation.

http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/articles/wpj03-2/grantham.html

But in 1898, it becomes serious, because this is the moment at which, says Roger, French anti-Americanism cohered; it stopped being the noisy opinion of various oddballs and achieved critical mass. The event that caused the coherence was the American declaration of war on Spain, followed by the invasion of Cuba and the landing on the Philippines. A threshold had been crossed. If Spain, why not France?

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article385766.ece

Also…

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/723682.html

Some parts of “The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism” by Philippe Roger can also be found on Google Books.

You may also wish to read “French anti-Americanism (1930-1948): critical moments in a complex history”, by Seth D. Armus; “The rise of integral nationalism in France”, by William Curt Buthman; and “Anti-Americanism”, by Jean-Francois Revel.

[When I refer to the fall of western civilization, I am not talking about the fall of civilization in “western countries”. Instead, I am referring to the fall of the primacy of western cultural norms, principally (a) the exaltation of the Latin language, (b) the exaltation of Greek philosophy (often but not exclusively embedded within Christianity), and (c) the primacy of European and European-inspired culture. Western civilization can be said to exist where the Latin language and Greek philosophy function as tokens of status (and are an exalted part of the university curriculum) and where European culture is ascendant.

Imagine a place where mosques went into disrepair, Arabic was neither spoken nor respected (and if Arabic speaking, a vernacular dialect were used as the written standard), the Koran were ignored completely by the society, Islam were regarded as a quaint old-fashioned custom, and the popular music of the region were imported from India or the United States. Would such a place really be part of Islam?? My answer is no.]