The term Islamophobia understates the racial and political roots of anti-Muslim bias

Evidence

This is why “Islamophobia,” insofar as it reduces anti-Muslim attitudes to a fear of Islam, appears to be too narrow a concept to capture the racial and political factors that underpin current negative attitudes toward Muslims. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 260

Categorization

• DEFINE: Caps the author’s critique of the phobia root as reductive—core to the reader’s ‘frightened subject’ analytic frame.
• XREF: Parallels the reader’s pivot from interrogating the object (Islam) to the frightened subject; this is the direct statement of that move. — connects to: Islamophobia has coalesced Muslims into a distinct racial group and Islam into a race. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 61; Invasion-era stereotypes of foreign Muslims double as domestic anti-immigrant racism — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 242; Race analysis better captures anti-Muslim discrimination than religious-discrimination framing — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 317 (+7 more)