Complacency and common sense occupy the same continuum as active Islamophobic hatred.

Evidence

The question is more about global citizenship, as envisaged directly in some of the novels. It is to do with complacency and common sense as much as with active hatred and prejudice because all four occupy a continuum and cannot in the end be conveniently separated. Islamophobia seeps in through the cracks of daily life, through hints and rumors, newsfeeds and tweets, in journalists’ articles and politicians’ utterances. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 517

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames Islamophobia as a continuum spanning passive complacency to active violence — a working definitional tool for differentiating contesting from reinforcing texts.
• XREF: Echoes the moral-panic literature and Cohen’s reaction framework already in the reader’s knowledge base; also connects to the reader’s argument that Hamid and Naqvi dramatize everyday seepage rather than episodic violence.