Anti-Muslim discrimination measurement tools remain scarce despite rising hate crimes

Evidence

Background: Hate crimes against Muslim Americans have increased exponentially in the past 20 years, but there are few scales for measuring the spectrum of perceived anti-Muslim discrimination in the United States. To fill this gap, this study used a mixed-method approach to develop scales for measuring perceived anti-Muslim discrimination. — Naheed Ahmed, Measurement of Perceived Interpersonal…, 10

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s reading of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which dramatizes post-9/11 suspicion of Muslim Americans.
• SEED: Angle: why the instruments we use to count prejudice lag years behind the prejudice itself.