Latent Islamophobia rests on an unspoken civilizational-superiority assumption

Evidence

So Islamophobia is manifest in words and actions. However, there is also what I would describe as a strain of latent Islamophobia, dependent on a powerful, often tacit assumption that Islam and Muslim cultures are inferior to an evolved, secular Western model. This distinction is stoked by the slew of decontextualized soundbites that daily present us with instances of the injustice and barbarity perpetrated in Muslim lands without obliging us to consider histories of imperialism. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 42

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines latent Islamophobia as the tacit civilizational-inferiority assumption underneath explicit prejudice — distinct from manifest Islamophobia in words and actions.
• XREF: Latent Islamophobia maps onto the ‘race thinking’ of 41 and onto the secular-vs-Muslim hierarchy Hamid critiques in The Reluctant Fundamentalist. — connects to: Singling out Islam for sexism serves a civilizational contrast narrative rather than fact. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 307