Generalizing from a few examples to 1.5 billion Muslims is the core of bigotry

Evidence

In 2011, I said that Islamophobia had passed the dinner-table test. I was speaking about those who display their bigotry overtly, but also those who do so more subtly in the most respectable of settings – middle-class dinner tables. It is this more covert form of Islamophobia, couched in intellectual arguments and espoused by thinktanks, commentators and even politicians, that I have spent the last decade trying to reason with. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 29 (#expands, via linked claim)

A better remedy is to call for a situation in which no religious group is singled out to prove their loyalty (consider Rep. Peter King’s investigation of Muslims as un-American); opponents of Islamophobia should criticize racism and bigotry rather than attempt to idealize Islam. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 55 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Covert intellectual bigotry is more dangerous than overt Islamophobia — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 29; Combating Islamophobia means opposing bigotry, not idealizing Muslims — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 55

Broader Connections

• Covert intellectual bigotry is more dangerous than overt Islamophobia #expands (0.82) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 29
• Combating Islamophobia means opposing bigotry, not idealizing Muslims #expands (0.80) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 55