State Islamophobia

State Islamophobia is a systemic form of anti-Muslim prejudice enacted or institutionalized by governments, operating through state policies, policing, racial classification, and normalization within governing and educated classes.

Claims that use this term

• State Islamophobia operates first through policing Muslim women’s bodies.
• State Islamophobia has always been entangled with US racial classification, splitting Muslims by race.
• State Islamophobia normalized itself inside India’s educated classes within years