Ummul-Kiram Kathawalla, Fei Bi Chan, Quratulain Gulamhussein, Amy Riegelman, and Moin Syed — Conceptualization and Measurement of Islamophobia: A Systematic Review
17 published claims from this book.
- A single survey item cannot capture a multidimensional construct.
- Accurate measurement is a precondition for policy that actually helps minorities
- Economic anxiety, not general racism, best predicts anti-Muslim feeling
- Fear, anger, and disgust all independently predict measured Islamophobia
- In Europe the words immigrants, Turks, and Muslims function interchangeably
- In Europe, measures of Islamophobia cannot separate from prejudice against Turks
- Islamophobia measurement splits into six distinct but related content areas
- Islamophobia operates through racialized appearance, targeting anyone who looks Muslim-like.
- Islamophobia requires both fear of Muslims and discriminatory intent
- Islamophobia was coined to justify colonial conquest of Muslim lands
- Many self-labelled Islamophobia scales measure components or unrelated constructs.
- Measures of negative beliefs alone fail to qualify as Islamophobia measures
- Measuring prejudice from the majority’s perspective cannot capture the targets’ experience of it.
- Most Islamophobia measures are unvalidated, and prejudicial attitudes dominate the field.
- Multidimensional constructs require factor analysis before a measure counts as valid.
- Secular criticism of Islam is empirically distinct from anti-Muslim prejudice
- Single-item measures suit narrow constructs but can’t be checked for reliability