Muslims exceed five percent of American doctors yet remain excluded from the fearful image

Evidence

Over 5 percent of America’s doctors are now Muslim, and that number grows year after year. From celebrity MDs like Dr. Mehmet Oz to the hardworking doctors at their local community health centers during the 2020 COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, Muslim healthcare providers from coast to coast are busy curing Americans’ cancers, their acne breakouts, and everything in between. But Americans don’t mean these Muslims. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 23

Categorization

• XREF: The scapegoating pattern here against doctors echoes the book’s thesis that group fear ignores individual reality. — connects to: A minority of Americans and Britons valued Islam despite dominant fear-based publications. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 117; Representations of Muslims as monsters persist despite statistical evidence against them
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 23

Related

• A minority of Americans and Britons valued Islam despite dominant fear-based publications. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Representations of Muslims as monsters persist despite statistical evidence against them #corroborates (0.80)