Islamophobia has no single cause but several competing explanatory frameworks

Evidence

There are many ways to decode Islamophobia and understand its appeal: a psychological self-defense reflex against an antithetical Other; the most recent instance of popular moral panic; the logic of neoimperial foreign policies; a manifestation of the unequal results of globalization; or a golden opportunity for nationalist and racist ideologues. This book acknowledges each of these possibilities as it occurs in novels and other prose fictions in English produced since the mid-1990s, the era when an emergent multiculturalism in the West—the product of postimperial population movements and emancipatory ethnic politics—was challenged by the rise to prominence of politically antagonistic “radical” Islamic identities and the countermeasures employed against them. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 35

Categorization

• XREF: The moral panic frame links to the reader’s known concept set; the neoimperial and globalization frames resonate with Hamid/Naqvi contexts. — connects to: Defining Islamophobia matters only insofar as it enables systematic comparison. — Erik Bleich, What Is Islamophobia and How Much Is…, 60; Islamophobia has multiple sources and resists single-source critique — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 485; Islamophobia splits into two correlated factors, not one general prejudice — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims: Psychometric…, 63 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Defining Islamophobia matters only insofar as it enables systematic comparison. — Erik Bleich, What Is Islamophobia and How Much Is…, 60; Islamophobia has multiple sources and resists single-source critique — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 485; Islamophobia splits into two correlated factors, not one general prejudice — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims: Psychometric…, 63 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Islamophobia has multiple sources and resists single-source critique #corroborates (0.97) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 485
• Islamophobia arises from multiple forces, not a single conspiracy. #corroborates (0.97) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 485
• Perceiving Islam as monolithic and static drives most Islamophobia #complicates (0.75) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 53