Existing prejudice measures lack the specificity needed to capture Islamophobia

Evidence

Anti-Arab Racism Scale (Pratto, Sidanius, Stallworth, & Malle, 1994), the New Measure of Anti-Arab Prejudice (Echebarria- Echabe & Guede, 2007), the Anti-Muslim Prejudice Scale (Ernst, Bornstein, & Venable, 2003, as cited in Park, Felix, & Lee, 2007), and the Scale for Islamoprejudice and Secular Critique of Islam (Imhoff & Recker, 2012). Other instruments assess attitudes toward Muslims at an implicit level, such as the Christian–Muslim Implicit Association Test (Rowatt, Franklin, & Cotton, 2005) and the Implicit Attitudes toward Arab-Muslims Test (Park et al., 2007). Although these instruments are important for assessing general attitudes toward Muslims, they lack the specificity that is required of a measure of Islamophobia. — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims, 17

Categorization

• XREF: The distinction between broad anti-Muslim prejudice and a specific Islamophobia construct parallels arguments in The Reluctant Fundamentalist about how diffuse hostility toward a group gets misread as religious critique.