Individual and state-inflicted Islamophobia are analytically distinct types

Evidence

That is, anti-Muslim animus or violence inflicted by individual bigots or actors not tied to the state; versus “structural Islamophobia,” such as law, policy, and action taken by a state agency or actor. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1389

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Distinguishes individual animus from structural/state Islamophobia.
  • XREF: connects to: the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”