It Makes a Difference to the Sheep

HARRY POTTER: CHRISTIAN IMPERIALIST. Apparently a publication of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic fundamentalist group based in Pakistan, has a beef with Harry Potter (see the cover here). According to Daniel Drezner, Lashkar-e-Taiba argues that "the Harry Potter series is really part of a missionary plot to spread Christianity to the Islamic parts of the world."

Having read all five books, I have to struggle and strain to think of anything in them that can be construed as Christian.

Drezner has several interesting observations including:

The irony is extremely rich, since a slice of Christian fundamentalists -- particularly some (but not all) individuals affiliated with Focus on the Family -- have been arguing for the past five years that Harry Potter must be the work of the devil because it promotes worship of the occult.

Is this a case of Occidentalism?