Islamophobic backlash is wildly disproportionate to any actual Muslim threat

Evidence

Anyone observing the exponential increase in anti-Muslim rhetoric over the past few years will have noted something incommensurate about the Islamophobic backlash when compared to the actual supposed “threat” from immigration or even terrorism. This imbalance should prompt us to think about what is really at stake in phenomena such as so-called white flight from areas with high numbers of migrants, working-class racism, and the hardening of refugee policies in response to a humanitarian crisis in the Middle East in large measure caused by destabilizing Western interventions. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 512