Moral panic over Muslims persists even where no Muslims live

Evidence

The academics S. Sayyid and Abdoolkarim Vakil maintain that Islamophobia is a response to the emergence of a distinct Muslim public identity globally, the presence of Muslims in itself not being an indicator of the degree of Islamophobia in a society. Sayyid and Vakil maintain that there are societies where virtually no Muslims live but many institutionalised forms of Islamophobia still exist in them. — Wikipedia contributors, Islamophobia, 46 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The produced moral panic far exceeds the actual terrorist threat — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 762; A tiny proposal triggered a nationwide moral panic about Muslim contamination — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 64; Pre-existing narratives, not actual events, primed the moral panic over Sharia — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 346 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Islamophobia can be deeply institutionalized in societies that have almost no Muslims. #expands (0.95) — Wikipedia contributors, Islamophobia, 46