Islamophobic presumption attaches to anyone perceived as Muslim, regardless of belief or practice.

Evidence

As a non-practising Muslim, I also hear non-Muslims loosen their tongues about Muslims, asking me as a part-insider about what I really think about Muslims, and if they (i.e. Muslims) really think or do various terrible things. They assume I share their identity and sympathize with their arguments about Muslims. … Once, after giving a work presentation, which didn’t even address religion or Muslims, the first question from the audience was ‘what is your view on female genital mutilation?’ I was initially baffled by the question, but then I realized I was being asked whether as a Muslim I supported it, and that this was viewed as a reasonable and justifiable question following a presentation that had nothing to do with such issues. … This sort of thing has happened on a few occasions but, in general, secular Muslims like me don’t have the same intensity of Islamophobia compared to more obviously practising Muslims. But it also shows how no matter what a Muslim actually says or thinks, including whether or not we practise or believe in any religion, we are still always vulnerable to Islamophobic presumptions about Muslims. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 473

This sort of thing has happened on a few occasions but, in general, secular Muslims like me don’t have the same intensity of Islamophobia compared to more obviously practising Muslims. But it also shows how no matter what a Muslim actually says or thinks, including whether or not we practise or believe in any religion, we are still always vulnerable to Islamophobic presumptions about Muslims. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 468

Categorization

• SHARE: The FGM-as-first-question anecdote is a painfully vivid concrete instance of presumptive guilt based on category membership — worth sharing with anyone writing about everyday microaggressions.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s own framework debate: the passage demonstrates that Islamophobia as a category operates on ascribed identity, not belief, which bears on Bleich’s ‘attitudes’ definition and its elision of how the target is racialized rather than believed. — connects to: A presumption of guilt until proven innocent defines Islamophobia — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 281; Islamophobia is the meaning disseminated about Muslims and Islam rather than any single act — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 818; Islamophobia materially harms real lives regardless of how temporary the trend is. (+9 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: This is the core definitional move: the secular Muslim’s testimony shows the attitude-measuring approach fails because the presumed attribute (religious belief/practice) plays no role in who gets targeted — the marker is racialized identity.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 473; Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 468

Related

• Islamophobia requires an acknowledged Muslim or Islamic element to be identified. (similarity 0.83)
• Evidence of anti-Muslim incidents has not convinced many of Islamophobia as a distinct phenomenon (similarity 0.81)
• Courts treated ordinary Muslim religiosity as evidence of terrorist predisposition (similarity 0.81)
• Monolithic Islam assumptions enable guilt-by-association targeting (similarity 0.81)
• Terrorism and extremism are treated as exclusive to Islam (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia need not rest on false beliefs about Islam or Muslims. (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia is the meaning disseminated about Muslims and Islam rather than any single act (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim attitudes are distinct but overlapping targets of prejudice (similarity 0.80)
• Most people harboring anti-Muslim prejudice act from ignorance rather than malice. (similarity 0.80)
• Indicators of Islamophobia vary widely in how directly they reflect underlying attitudes (similarity 0.80)
• Suspicion of Muslims is based on association rather than evidence (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia is an ideology, not a set of actions or practices (similarity 0.80)
• Most people harboring anti-Muslim suspicion do so without deliberate malice. (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia denotes fear, hatred, and hostility toward Muslims and Islam. (similarity 0.80)
• Muslims suffer hostility for perceived identity beyond any voluntary religious choice. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Islamophobia requires an acknowledged Muslim or Islamic element to be identified. #contradicts (0.92) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 911
• An acknowledged Muslim or Islamic element is the defining criterion of Islamophobia #contradicts (0.90) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 776
• A presumption of guilt until proven innocent defines Islamophobia #corroborates (0.82) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 281
• Islamophobia need not rest on false beliefs about Islam or Muslims. #corroborates (0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 826
• Islamophobia is the meaning disseminated about Muslims and Islam rather than any single act #expands (0.78) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 818
• Islamophobia is an ideology, not a set of actions or practices #expands (0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 832
• Islamophobia is a graded category with degrees, not an all-or-nothing attribute #qualifies (0.75) — Erik Bleich, What Is Islamophobia and How Much Is…, 36
• Muslim identity cannot be reduced to religion alone #corroborates (0.75) — Fred Halliday, ‘Islamophobia’ Reconsidered, 43
• Islamophobia materially harms real lives regardless of how temporary the trend is. #expands (0.72)
• Routine Muslim religious practice is legally treated as evidence of terrorist predisposition #exemplifies (0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 463
• Islamophobia is systemic and institutionalized, not merely individual prejudice #expands (0.72) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 641
• Refusing to narrate Muslim experience can itself constitute latent Islamophobia #expands (0.72) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 379