Measuring prejudice from the majority’s perspective cannot capture the targets’ experience of it.

Evidence

While the content areas above focused on examining the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors from the perspective of non-Muslim respondents, the content area of experiences of discrimination assessed reports of negative experiences from the perspective of Muslim or Muslim-like individuals. Measures in this content area provided space for respondents to share their personalor group-based experiences of discrimination overall and in specific domains such as media, work, or school. Measures categorized in the experiences of discrimination content area were not measures of Islamophobia as they assessed experiences from the perspective of Muslims or Muslim-like individuals, whereas measures of Islamophobia assessed non-Muslims’ views of Muslims/Islam. — Ummul-Kiram Kathawalla, Fei Bi Chan, Quratulain Gulamhussein, Amy Riegelman, and Moin Syed, Conceptualization and Measurement of…, 493

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: An important epistemological fault line: a construct of ‘Islamophobia’ built solely from non-Muslim attitudes is structurally blind to what Muslims actually endure, and the reviewers exclude the Muslim-perspective instruments from the definition entirely.
• QUESTION: Is measuring the perpetrator’s attitude and the target’s experience of the same phenomenon even commensurable — or are these two different constructs wearing one name?