Islamophobia can be deeply institutionalized in societies that have almost no Muslims.

Evidence

The academics S. Sayyid and Abdoolkarim Vakil maintain that Islamophobia is a response to the emergence of a distinct Muslim public identity globally, the presence of Muslims in itself not being an indicator of the degree of Islamophobia in a society. Sayyid and Vakil maintain that there are societies where virtually no Muslims live but many institutionalised forms of Islamophobia still exist in them. — Wikipedia contributors, Islamophobia, 46

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the finding in Islamophobia in America that state repression, not cultural contact, manufactures anti-Muslim politics.
• QUESTION: Which societies with near-zero Muslim populations show the strongest institutionalized Islamophobia, and what does that imply about its actual causes?
• STORYSTEM: World-building spark: a country that legislates against a minority that has never actually lived there — the fear precedes the people.