Islamophobia framing individualizes prejudice and obscures racial hierarchy

Evidence

As highlighted in the deployment of the neologism and concept of Islamophobia, so racism can be deployed in equally inflationary ways, where little or no context or apparent grounding exists. Unlike Islamophobia though, extensive research and evidence has been produced that firstly sought to define and conceptualise racism, and secondly to provide credence and theoretical evidence for its existence. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 789 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Religious identity and race were two demographic variables expected to correlate with the IS. Research has shown that Christians and Whites tend to hold stronger prejudicial attitudes than their non-Christian (Rowatt et al., 2005) and non-White counterparts (Ponterotto et al., 1995). However, when assessing Islamophobia, Lee et al. (2009) discovered that this pattern only held for the affective–behavioral and not the cognitive facet of Islamophobia. — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims, 37 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Race analysis better captures anti-Muslim discrimination than religious-discrimination framing — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 317; Islamophobia operates as a racial formation, not merely religious prejudice — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 46; Measurable Islamophobia enables causal analysis of ethnoracial hierarchy change — Erik Bleich, What Is Islamophobia and How Much Is…, 62 (+16 more)

Broader Connections

• Racism has empirical grounding that Islamophobia still lacks #complicates (0.78) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 789
• Prejudice correlates with religion and race only on some measures of Islamophobia #complicates (0.75) — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims, 37