Structural Islamophobia

Structural Islamophobia is a form of systemic anti-Muslim bias embedded in laws, policies, and institutions that presume Muslims pose a threat to national security. It operates through institutional and community-level conditions that can shape health outcomes and other social disparities, and it shares mechanisms with structural racism through embedded institutional stereotypes.

Claims that use this term

• Structural Islamophobia triggered a second wave of private Islamophobia
• Structural Islamophobia operates through laws and policies that presume Muslims threaten national security
• Structural Islamophobia and structural racism share embedded institutional stereotypes
• Structural Islamophobia shapes health outcomes through institutional and community-level conditions.
• Structural Islamophobia operates through institutions enacting security-based policies.
• Structural Islamophobia institutionalizes the presumption that Muslim identity threatens national security