European hostility toward Muslims exceeds even hostility toward other immigrants

Evidence

Another objection that might be raised is that these images have only been seen, read, or digested by a few, and thus cannot exist as a powerful force in the construction of knowledge about Islam. This is countered by two facts: first, the large number of Muslim monsters found across numerous fields of cultural production and the disparate locations in which they function as social, literary, artistic, and filmic characters. Second, negative feelings are voiced by high numbers of non-Muslims against Islam and its followers. For example, European attitudes toward Muslims are far worse than attitudes toward other immigrants, a situation that is amplified in most eastern European states. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 37

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader project of anti-Muslim sentiment circulating more intensely than other group antipathies — resonates with the Islamic-exceptionalism argument in contemporary Islamophobia scholarship. — connects to: Unconscious anti-Arab bias kept a European open only to a fellow non-Arab’s call — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 546; Van Gogh’s murder sharply reversed Dutch public opinion against Muslim immigration — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 384; Sustained daily contact tempered hostile European images of Muslims. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 51 (+4 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 37

Broader Connections

• Islamophobia remains Europe’s one tolerated and even encouraged racist ideology #corroborates (0.75) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 486
• Sustained daily contact tempered hostile European images of Muslims. #contradicts (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 51
• Islamophobia has become the dominant prejudice in Western societies #corroborates (0.60) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 15