Racism and perceived religious threat predict higher Islamophobia.

Evidence

We predicted that individuals who held racist and stereotyped beliefs, and who believed that religions other than their own (i.e., non-Christian religions) were a threat to their own views, would be more Islamophobic than individuals who were less racist and felt less threatened by Islam. The significant correlations between both subscales of the IS and measures of MR, RF, agreeableness, openness to experience, and religious identity supported this contention. — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims, 72

Categorization

• CANDY: A crisp, quotable finding: bigotry plus perceived threat equals Islamophobia — good elevator material.
• XREF: connects to: Religion fosters prejudice via intergroup bias, meaning-making threat, and authoritarianism. — Alexandra Snell, Miron Zuckerman, and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 5