The pandemic generated new Islamophobic scapegoating across countries

Evidence

This private Islamophobia, unfolding on screen, was triggered by the structural Islamophobia made more expansive and explicit by the Bush administration, which spurred a second wave of private Islamophobia. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 291 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Islamophobia functions as scapegoating that diverts attention from capitalism’s failures. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 40; Group scapegoating has recurred against Jews, Irish, Chinese, Roma, and LGBTQ people — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 37; The global Islamophobic crusade spans China India France and Myanmar (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Islamophobic tropes become real violence through perceived enemy images #expands (0.60)
• Islamophobia adapts to each society’s own governing concerns #expands (0.55)
• Crisis-time scapegoating of religious out-groups masks political and economic causes #responds-to (0.50)
• Structural Islamophobia triggered a second wave of private Islamophobia #corroborates (0.50) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 291
• Indian Islamophobia constitutes a more immediate lethal threat to Muslims than the pandemic does #complicates (0.40)