Ordinary citizens voice unexamined Islamophobic assumptions unprompted

Evidence

A passer-by stops to offer congratulations: “ ‘Good on you,’ a middle-aged man in a canary yellow shirt said in slightly trembling but loud voice. ‘They won’t integrate, you know’ ” (93). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 368

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘won’t integrate’ refrain maps onto Naqvi’s and Hamid’s treatment of belonging and assimilation — a concrete bridge moment. — connects to: Anti-Muslim racism’s power lies in unexamined assumptions presented as fact. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 264