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'''Islamophobia''' is the irrational fear of, hostility towards, or hatred against the [[religion]] of [[Islam]] or [[Muslim]]s in general.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2023-11-16 |title=The Devastating Mental Health Effects of Islamophobia |url=https://time.com/6335453/islamophobia-mental-health-effects-essay/ |access-date=2024-03-15 |magazine=TIME |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Segal |first=Jody |title=LibGuides: Islam and Muslim Americans: Islamophobia |url=https://libguides.greenriver.edu/IslamicStudies/islamophobia |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=libguides.greenriver.edu |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Islamophobia |url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/islamophobia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111060707/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/islamophobia |archive-date=11 November 2016 |dictionary=[[Oxford Dictionaries (website)|Oxford Dictionaries]] |access-date=10 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Dictionary.com|islamophobia|access-date=10 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Islamophobia |url=http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/islamophobia |dictionary=[[Collins Dictionary]] |access-date=10 November 2016}}</ref> Islamophobia is primarily a form of religious or cultural bigotry;<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hedges |first=Paul |title=Religious Hatred: Prejudice, Islamophobia and Antisemitism in Global Context |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |year=2021 |isbn=978-1-3501-6287-7 |location=London |publication-date=2021 |lccn=2020041827}}</ref> and people who harbour such sentiments often stereotype Muslims as a geopolitical threat or a source of [[Islamic terrorism|terrorism]].{{sfn|Miles|Brown|2003|p=166}}<ref name=egorova /><ref name="Pew3">{{cite report |url=http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/Pew-Research-Center-EU-Refugees-and-National-Identity-Report-FINAL-July-11-2016.pdf |title=Europeans Fear Wave of Refugees Will Mean More Terrorism, Fewer Jobs |last1=Wike |first1=Richard |last2=Stokes |first2=Bruce |last3=Simmons |first3=Katie |date=July 2016 |publisher=Pew Research Center |page=4 |access-date=27 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127220309/http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/Pew-Research-Center-EU-Refugees-and-National-Identity-Report-FINAL-July-11-2016.pdf |archive-date=27 November 2016 }}</ref> Muslims, with diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, are often inaccurately portrayed by Islamophobes as a single homogeneous racial group.<ref name="becker23">{{cite journal |doi=10.1111/jssr.12865 |title=Classifying Muslims: Contextualizing Religion and Race in the United Kingdom and Germany |date=2023 |last1=Becker |first1=Elisabeth |last2=Rinado |first2=Rachel |last3=Guhin |first3=Jeffrey |journal=Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion |volume=62 |issue=4 |pages=749–769 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

The causes of increased Islamophobia across the world since the end of the [[Cold War]] are many. These include the quasi-racialist stereotypes against Muslims that proliferated through the Western media since the 1990s,{{sfn|Miles|Brown|2003|p=164-168}} the "[[war on terror]]" campaign launched by the United States after the [[September 11 attacks]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Beydoun |first=Khaled A. |date=April 2020 |title=Exporting Islamophobia in the Global "War On Terror" |url=https://www.nyulawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/NYULawReviewOnline-95-Beydoun.pdf |journal=New York University Law Review |volume=95 |pages=81–100 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hilal |first=Maha |title=Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11 |publisher=Broadleaf Books |year=2021 |isbn=978-1-5064-7046-7 |location=Minneapolis, USA}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Kiara Alfonseca|date=September 11, 2021|title=20 years after 9/11, Islamophobia continues to haunt Muslims|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/20-years-911-islamophobia-continues-haunt-muslims/story?id=79732049|website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|language=en}}</ref> the rise of the [[Islamic State]] in the [[aftermath of the Iraq War]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Abbas |first=Tahir |date=2021 |title=Reflection: the "war on terror", Islamophobia and radicalisation twenty years on |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17539153.2021.1980182 |journal=Critical Studies on Terrorism |publisher=Routledge |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=402–404 |doi=10.1080/17539153.2021.1980182 |via=tandfonline|hdl=1887/3618299 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> terrorist attacks carried out by [[Islamist militant]]s in the United States and Europe, anti-Muslim rhetoric disseminated by [[White nationalism|white nationalist]] organizations through the [[internet]],<ref>{{Cite news|last=Spence|first=Duncan|date=November 2, 2014|title=Why online Islamophobia is difficult to stop|work=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/why-online-islamophobia-is-difficult-to-stop-1.2810242}}</ref> and the radicalization of [[Christian nationalism|Christian nationalist]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kumar |first=Deepa |title=Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire |publisher=Verso |year=2021 |isbn=978-1-78873-721-0 |edition=2nd |location=London |pages=197, 198 |chapter=7: The New McCarthyites: The right-wing islamophobia network and their liberal enablers}}</ref> and far-right groups with growing hostility towards [[Muslims in the United States]] and [[Muslims in the European Union|the European Union]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Idil Oztig |first=Lacin |date=2022 |title=Islamophobic Discourse of European Right-Wing Parties |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23294965221139852?icid=int.sj-full-text.citing-articles.13 |journal=Social Currents |publisher=Sage Publishing |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=1–14 |doi=10.1177/23294965221139852 |via=Sage Journals|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Benkler |last2=Faris |last3=Roberts |first1=Yochai |first2=Robert |first3=Hal |title=Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2018 |isbn=9780190923624 |location=New York |pages=105–144 |chapter=4: Immigration and Islamophobia: Breitbart and the Trump Party |lccn=2018020121}}</ref>

A study conducted in 2013 revealed that Muslim women, especially those wearing headscarves or face veils, are more vulnerable to suffer from Islamophobic attacks than Muslim men.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/muslim-women-islamaphonic-attacks|title=Muslim Women more likely to suffer Islamophobic attacks than men - study|first=Haroon|last=Siddique|date=20 November 2013|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> Due to the racialized nature of Islamophobic discrimination and attacks suffered by numerous Muslims in their daily lives, several scholars have asserted that Islamophobia has explicit [[Racism|racist]] dimensions.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kulik |first=Rebecca M. |title=Islamophobia |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Islamophobia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240704062223/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Islamophobia |archive-date=4 July 2024 |website=Encyclopaedia Britannica}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Selod |first=Sahar |title=Global Islamophobia and the Rise of Populism |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2024 |isbn=978-0-19-764900-8 |editor-last=Aziz |editor-last2=Esposito |editor-first=Sahar F. |editor-first2=John L. |location=New York |pages=56–72 |chapter=4: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Rise of Ethnonationalist Populism in the United States |doi=10.1093/oso/9780197648995.001.0001}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Abbas |first=Tahir |title=Islamophobia and Radicalisation |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2019 |isbn=9780190083410 |location=New York |pages=57–70 |chapter=5: Islamophobia as New Racism |doi=10.1093/oso/9780190083410.003.0005}}</ref> On 15 March 2022, the [[United Nations General Assembly]] adopted a resolution by consensus which was introduced by Pakistan on behalf of the [[Organisation of Islamic Cooperation]] that proclaimed March 15 as '[[International Day To Combat Islamophobia]]'.<ref>{{cite news |title='Landmark resolution': UNGA declares March 15 as International Day to Combat Islamophobia |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1680128/landmark-resolution-unga-declares-march-15-as-international-day-to-combat-islamophobia |work=Dawn |date=March 15, 2022}}</ref>

The exact definition of the term "Islamophobia" has been a subject of debate amongst Western analysts. Detractors of the term have proposed alternative terms, such as "anti-Muslim", to denote [[prejudice]] or discrimination against Muslims.{{sfnp|Scott|2014|p=377}} It has been alleged, often by [[right-wing]] commentators,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Babacan |first=Muhammed |date=30 April 2023 |title="Neither 'Islam' nor 'Muslim' is race": Islamophobia, racism and freedom of expression |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370350869 |journal=Bilimname |issue=49 |pages=604 |doi=10.28949/bilimname.1228143 |via=ResearchGate}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Lean |first=Nathan |title=The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Hatred of Muslims |publisher=Pluto Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-0-7453-3717-3 |edition=Second |location=London |pages=84, 85, 173}}</ref> that the term is sometimes used to avoid [[criticism of Islam]], by removing the distinction between racism and criticism of religious doctrine or practice.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-11-10 |title=Quatre questions sur l'emploi du terme "islamophobie", qui fait (une nouvelle fois) débat |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/societe/islamophobie/quatre-questions-sur-l-emploi-du-terme-islamophobie-qui-fait-une-nouvelle-fois-debat_3695793.html |website=France Info |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Benn |first=Piers |date=2007-05-31 |title=On Islamophobia-phobia |url=https://newhumanist.org.uk/524/on-islamophobia-phobia |website=New Humanist |language=en-GB}}</ref>{{sfnp|Scott|2014|p=377}} However, academics, activists and experts who support the terminology have denounced such characterizations as attempts to deny the existence of Islamophobia.<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 November 2022 |title=Tackling denial of Islamophobia |url=https://trustforlondon.org.uk/news/tackling-denial-of-islamophobia/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201232254/https://trustforlondon.org.uk/news/tackling-denial-of-islamophobia/ |archive-date=1 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Zia-Ebrahimi |first=Reza |date=2020 |title=The French origins of 'Islamophobia denial' |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/10.1080/0031322X.2020.1857047?scroll=top&needAccess=true |journal=Patterns of Prejudice |volume=54 |issue=4 |pages=315–346 |doi=10.1080/0031322X.2020.1857047|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=York |first=Jillian |date=26 July 2010 |title=Paranoid Politics: The Denial of Islamophobia |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paranoid-politics-the-den_b_659497 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610071712/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paranoid-politics-the-den_b_659497 |archive-date=10 June 2021 |work=Huffington Post}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Mcguinness |first=Alan |date=5 March 2020 |title=Conservative Party accused of 'denial' over Islamophobia |url=https://news.sky.com/story/conservative-party-accused-of-denial-over-islamophobia-11950374 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210617064649/https://news.sky.com/story/conservative-party-accused-of-denial-over-islamophobia-11950374 |archive-date=17 June 2021 |work=Sky News}}</ref>

==Terms==
There are a number of other possible terms which are also used in order to refer to negative feelings and attitudes towards Islam and Muslims, such as '''anti-Muslimism''', '''intolerance against Muslims''', '''anti-Muslim prejudice''', '''anti-Muslim bigotry''', '''hatred of Muslims''', '''anti-Islamism''', '''Muslimophobia''', '''demonisation of Islam''', or '''demonisation of Muslims'''. In German, ''Islamophobie'' (fear) and ''Islamfeindlichkeit'' (hostility) are used. The Scandinavian term ''Muslimhat'' literally means "hatred of Muslims".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kaya|first1=Ayhan|editor1-last=Cesari|editor1-first=Jocelyne|title=The Oxford Handbook of European Islam|date=2014|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-960797-6|chapter=Islamophobia}}</ref>

When discrimination towards Muslims has placed an emphasis on their religious affiliation and adherence, it has been termed Muslimphobia, the alternative form of Muslimophobia,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Carpente|first1=Markus|title=Diversity, Intercultural Encounters, and Education|date=2013|page=65}}</ref> Islamophobism,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Pande|first1=Rekha|title=Globalization, Technology Diffusion and Gender Disparity|date=2012|page=99}}</ref> antimuslimness and antimuslimism.<ref>Racism and Human Rights. p. 8, Raphael Walden – 2004</ref><ref>Muslims in Western Europe. p. 169, Jørgen S. Nielsen – 2004</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1 = Sedmak |first1 = Mateja |last2 = Walker |first2 = Sarah |last3 = Medarić |first3 = Zorana |date = 2014-05-09 |title = Children's Voices: Studies of Interethnic Conflict and Violence in European Schools |publisher = [[Routledge]] |page = 124 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CwuLAwAAQBAJ&q=Islamophobia |isbn = 978-1-134-49345-6}}</ref> Individuals who discriminate against Muslims in general have been termed ''Islamophobes'', ''Islamophobists'',<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kuwara|first1=Ibrahim|title=Islam Nigeria-UK Road Tour|date=2004|page=6}}</ref> ''anti-Muslimists'',<ref>2002, Fred halliday, Two hours that shook the world, p. 97</ref> ''antimuslimists'',<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kollontai|first1=Pauline|title=Community Identity: Dynamics of Religion in Context|date=2007|page=254|publisher=A&C Black |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ff_TAwAAQBAJ|isbn=9780567031570}}</ref> ''islamophobiacs'',<ref>{{cite book|last1=Seid|first1=Amine|title=Islamic Terrorism and the Tangential Response of the West|date=2011|page=39|publisher=AuthorHouse |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MHm89Dw8L0MC|isbn=9781467885676}}</ref> ''anti-Muhammadan'',<ref>{{cite book|last1=Goknar|first1=Erdag|title=Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy|date=2013|page=219}}</ref> ''Muslimphobes'' or its alternative spelling of ''Muslimophobes'',<ref>{{cite book|last1=Arasteh|first1=Kamyar|title=The American Reichstag|date=2004|page=94}}</ref> while [[w:Religious intolerance|religiously intolerant]] individuals motivated by a specific anti-Muslim [[Agenda-setting theory|agenda]] or bigotry have been described as being ''anti-mosque'',<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dressler|first1=Markus|title=Secularism and Religion-Making|url=https://archive.org/details/secularismreligi00dres|url-access=limited|date=2011|page=[https://archive.org/details/secularismreligi00dres/page/n260 250]}}</ref> ''anti-Shiites''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kaim|first1=Markus|title=Great Powers and Regional Orders|date=2013|page=157}}</ref> (or ''Shiaphobes''<ref>2013, Glen Perry, The International Relations of the Contemporary Middle East, p. 161</ref>), ''anti-Sufism''<ref>{{Cite book |last = Falola |first = Toyin |author-link = Toyin Falola |date = 1998 |title = Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies |publisher = [[University of Rochester Press]] |page = 240 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4X4oYdPpXGQC&q=%22Anti-Sufism%22 |isbn=978-1-58046-052-1 |quote = Anti-Sufism itself is therefore a marker of identity, and the formation of the Izala proves this beyond any reasonable doubt.}}</ref> (or ''Sufi-phobia'')<ref>Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East, p. 197, Juan Ricardo Cole – 1999, ''"Ironically, the '''Sufi-phobia''' of the British consuls in the aftermath of 1857 led them to look in the wrong places for urban disturbances in the 1860s.''"</ref> and ''anti-Sunni'' (or ''Sunniphobes'').<ref>'''2005''', Ahmed Hashim, ''Insurgency and Counter-insurgency in Iraq'', Cornell University Press (2006), {{ISBN|9780801444524}}</ref>

== Etymology and definitions ==
The word ''Islamophobia'' is a [[neologism]]<ref>{{cite web |author=Roland Imhoff & Julia Recker|title=Differentiating Islamophobia: Introducing a new scale to measure Islamoprejudice and Secular Islam Critique|url=https://uni-bonn.academia.edu/RolandImhoff/Papers/544018/Differentiating_Islamophobia_Introducing_a_new_scale_to_measure_Islamoprejudice_and_Secular_Islam_Critique|website=Academia |access-date=19 September 2013}}</ref> formed from ''Islam'' and ''-phobia'', a Greek [[suffix]] used in English to form "nouns with the sense 'fear {{nowrap| of – – '}}, 'aversion {{nowrap|to – – '."}}<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/142572?rskey=Glm8gY&result=2#eid |url-access=subscription|publisher=Oxford University Press|dictionary=Oxford English Dictionary |entry=-phobia, ''comb. form''|title=Home : Oxford English Dictionary }}</ref>

According to the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', the word means "Intense dislike or fear of Islam, esp. as a political force; hostility or prejudice towards Muslims". It is [[Attested language|attested]] in English as early as 1923<ref name=OED>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/248449? |url-access=subscription |publisher=Oxford University Press|dictionary=Oxford English Dictionary |entry=Islamophobia|title=Home : Oxford English Dictionary }}</ref> to quote the French word ''islamophobie'', found in a thesis published by Alain Quellien in 1910 to describe "a prejudice against Islam that is widespread among the peoples of Western and [[Christian civilization]]".<ref name=":1">{{cite web|author=Jean-Loïc Le Quellec |author-link=:fr:Jean-Loïc Le Quellec |date=2019-06-19|title=Histoire et mythe conspirationniste du mot " islamophobie "|url=https://tempspresents.com/2019/06/19/histoire-et-mythe-conspirationniste-du-mot-islamophobie/ |access-date=2019-08-31|website=Fragments sur les Temps Présents|language=fr-FR}}</ref> The expression did not immediately turn into the vocabulary of the English-speaking world though, which preferred the expression "feelings inimical to Islam", until its re-appearance in an article by Georges Chahati Anawati in 1976.<ref>"What makes the task difficult, perhaps impossible, for a non-Muslim is that he is compelled, under penalty of being accused of Islamophobia, to admire the Koran in its totality and to guard against implying the smallest criticism of the text's literary value" (Anawati 1976).</ref> The term did not exist in the Muslim world,{{Efn|Persian had the expression ''islām harāsī'' (اسلام هراسی), "hostility to Islam", similar to ''‛adā' al-islām'' (عَداء الإسلام) in Arabic.|group=lower-alpha}} and was later translated in the 1990s as ''ruhāb al-islām'' (رُهاب الإسلام) in Arabic, literally "phobia of Islam".<ref name=":1" />

The [[University of California at Berkeley]]'s [[Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project]] suggested this working definition: "Islamophobia is a contrived fear or prejudice fomented by the existing Eurocentric and Orientalist global power structure. It is directed at a perceived or real Muslim threat through the maintenance and extension of existing disparities in economic, political, social and cultural relations, while rationalizing the necessity to deploy violence as a tool to achieve 'civilizational rehab' of the target communities (Muslim or otherwise). Islamophobia reintroduces and reaffirms a global racial structure through which resource distribution disparities are maintained and extended."<ref>{{cite web |author=Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project |url=http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/islamophobia/defining-islamophobia |title=Defining "Islamophobia" |publisher=Center for Race & Gender, University of California at Berkeley |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170309201925/http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/islamophobia/defining-islamophobia |archive-date=9 March 2017 |access-date=15 May 2018}}</ref>

===Debate on the term and its limitations===
In 1996, the [[Runnymede Trust]] established the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia (CBMI), chaired by [[Gordon Conway]], the [[vice-chancellor (education)|vice-chancellor]] of the [[University of Sussex]]. The Commission's report, ''Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All'', was published in November 1997 by the Home Secretary, [[Jack Straw]]. In the Runnymede report, Islamophobia was defined as "an outlook or world-view involving an unfounded dread and dislike of Muslims, which results in practices of exclusion and discrimination."<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last= Runnymede Trust |title=Islamophobia A Challenge For Us All - Report of the Runnymede Trust Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia |year=1997 |url= https://mcislamofobia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Islamophobia-a-challenge-for-us-all-without-cartoons-1.pdf|publisher=[[The Runnymede Trust]]|isbn= 0-902397-98-2}}</ref><ref name="EoRE215">Encyclopedia of Race and Ethics, p. 215</ref> The introduction of the term was justified by the report's assessment that "anti-Muslim prejudice has grown so considerably and so rapidly in recent years that a new item in the vocabulary is needed".<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Meer|first1=Nasar|last2=Modood|first2=Tariq|date=July 2009|title=Refutations of racism in the 'Muslim question'|journal=[[Patterns of Prejudice]]|volume=43|issue=3–4|pages=335–54|doi=10.1080/00313220903109250|s2cid=144359945}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last= Runnymede Trust |title=Islamophobia A Challenge For Us All - Report of the Runnymede Trust Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia |year=1997 |url= https://mcislamofobia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Islamophobia-a-challenge-for-us-all-without-cartoons-1.pdf|publisher=[[The Runnymede Trust]]|isbn= 0-902397-98-2}}</ref>

In 2008, a workshop on 'Thinking Through Islamophobia' proposed a definition of Islamophobia which rejected the idea of Islamophobia as being the product of closed and open views of Islam and focused on Islamophobia as performative which problematized Muslim agency and identity. The symposium was an early attempt to bring insights from [[critical race theory]], [[postcolonial]] and [[Decoloniality|decolonial]] thought to bear on the question of Islamophobia.<ref name=Sayyid&Vakil/>

At a 2009 symposium on "Islamophobia and Religious Discrimination", Robin Richardson, a former director of the Runnymede Trust<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.runnymedetrust.org/bgRanimed.html|title=Runnymede Trust – Ranimed, Runnymede and a Long Report|access-date=18 March 2015|archive-date=25 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225130831/http://www.runnymedetrust.org/bgRanimed.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=September 2021|reason=dead link}} and the editor of ''Islamophobia: a challenge for us all'',<ref>{{cite web|date=2010|title=MCB Brings Experts and Parliamentarians Together to Discuss Islamophobia|url=http://www.mcb.org.uk/article_detail.php?article=announcement-862|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306001003/http://www.mcb.org.uk/article_detail.php?article=announcement-862|archive-date=6 March 2012|website=[[Muslim Council of Britain]]}}</ref> said that "the disadvantages of the term Islamophobia are significant" on seven different grounds, including that it implies it is merely a "severe mental illness" affecting "only a tiny minority of people"; that use of the term makes those to whom it is applied "defensive and defiant" and absolves the user of "the responsibility of trying to understand them" or trying to change their views; that it implies that hostility to Muslims is divorced from factors such as skin color, immigrant status, fear of fundamentalism, or political or economic conflicts; that it conflates prejudice against Muslims in one's own country with dislike of Muslims in countries with which the West is in conflict; that it fails to distinguish between people who are against all religion from people who dislike Islam specifically; and that the actual issue being described is hostility to Muslims, "an ethno-religious identity within European countries", rather than hostility to Islam. Nonetheless, he argued that the term is here to stay, and that it is important to define it precisely.<ref name=Richardson2009>Richardson, Robin (December 2009). {{cite web|url= http://www.insted.co.uk/anti-muslim-racism.pdf |title=Islamophobia or anti-muslim racism&nbsp;– or what? }}&nbsp;{{small|(119&nbsp;KB)}}, Insted website. Accessed 30 December 2011.</ref>

The exact definition of Islamophobia continues to be discussed, with academics such as [[Chris Allen (academic)|Chris Allen]] saying that it lacks a clear definition.<ref name=termlimits>{{cite book|author=Allen, Chris|title=Islamophobia|url=https://archive.org/details/islamophobia00alle|url-access=limited|publisher=Ashgate|year=2010|isbn=978-0754651390|page=[https://archive.org/details/islamophobia00alle/page/n29 21]|author-link=Chris Allen (academic)}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Bleich, Erik|date=December 2011|title=What Is Islamophobia and How Much Is There? Theorizing and Measuring an Emerging Comparative Concept|journal=[[American Behavioral Scientist]]|volume=55|issue=12|pages=1581–1600|doi=10.1177/0002764211409387|s2cid=143679557}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Muslims in 21st Century Europe: Structural and Cultural Perspectives|editor=Anna Triandafyllidou|year=2010|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0415497091|page=28|author=Burak Erdenir}}</ref> According to Erik Bleich, in his article "Defining and Researching Islamophobia", even when definitions are more specific, there is still significant variation in the precise formulations of Islamophobia. As with parallel concepts like homophobia or xenophobia, Islamophobia connotes a broader set of negative attitudes or emotions directed at individuals of groups because of perceived membership in a defined category.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bleich|first1=Erik|title=Defining and Researching Islamophobia|journal=Review of Middle East Studies|volume=46|issue=2|page=181}}</ref> [[Mattias Gardell]] defined Islamophobia as "socially reproduced prejudices and aversion to Islam and Muslims, as well as actions and practices that attack, exclude or discriminate against persons on the basis that they are or perceived to be Muslim and be associated with Islam".<ref name=levandedefinitioner/>{{Failed verification|date=August 2024}}

===Irrational fear===
[[File:IVČRN 14-03-2015 2.JPG|thumb|Speaker at a demonstration of the initiative [[We do not want Islam in the Czech Republic]] in 2015]]
As opposed to being a psychological or individualistic phobia, according to professors of religion Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, "Islamophobia" connotes a [[social anxiety]] about Islam and Muslims.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wesleyan.edu/newsletter/campus/2007/1107islambook.html |title=Faculty, Alumnus Discuss Concept of "Islamophobia" in Co-Authored Book |access-date=29 December 2007 |date=20 November 2007 |author=Corrina Balash Kerr |website=[[Wesleyan University]] Newsletter |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820031422/http://www.wesleyan.edu/newsletter/campus/2007/1107islambook.html |archive-date=20 August 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=19 November 2007|title=Images of Muslims: Discussing Islamophobia with Peter Gottschalk|url=http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/6181/1/296/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071206034654/http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/6181/1/296/ <!-- Bot retrieved archive -->|archive-date=6 December 2007|access-date=29 December 2007|website=[[Political Affairs Magazine]]}}</ref> Some social scientists have adopted this definition and developed instruments to measure Islamophobia in form of fearful attitudes towards, and avoidance of, Muslims and Islam,<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lee|first1=S. A.|last2=Gibbons|first2=J. A.|last3=Thompson|first3=J. M.|last4=Timani|first4=H. S.|year=2009|title=The islamophobia scale: Instrument development and initial validation|journal=[[International Journal for the Psychology of Religion]]|volume=19|issue=2|pages=92–105|doi=10.1080/10508610802711137|s2cid=146757435}}</ref><ref name="kunst2012b">{{cite journal|last1=Kunst|first1=J. R.|last2=Sam|first2=D. L.|last3=Ulleberg|first3=P.|year=2012|title=Perceived islamophobia: Scale development and validation|url=https://zenodo.org/record/812038|journal=[[International Journal of Intercultural Relations]]|volume=37|issue=2|pages=225–37|doi=10.1016/j.ijintrel.2012.11.001}}</ref> arguing that Islamophobia should "essentially be understood as an affective part of [[social stigma]] towards Islam and Muslims, namely fear".<ref name=kunst2012b/>{{rp|page=2}}

===Relation to racism===
{{See also|Cultural racism}}
{{Distinguish|Anti-Arab racism|Anti–Middle Eastern sentiment}}
Several scholars consider Islamophobia to be a form of [[racism]]. A 2007 article in ''Journal of Sociology'' defines Islamophobia as anti-Muslim racism and a continuation of anti-[[Asian people|Asian]], [[Anti-Turkism|anti-Turkic]] and [[Anti-Arabism|anti-Arab]] racism.<ref>[http://www.tariqmodood.com/uploads/1/2/3/9/12392325/multicultural_state_we_are_in.pdf "The Multicultural State We're In: Muslims,'Multiculture' and the 'Civic Re‐balancing' of British Multiculturalism"], ''Political Studies'': 2009 Vol 57, 473–97</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.surrey.ac.uk/cronem/files/Tariq-Modood-article.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054654/https://www.surrey.ac.uk/cronem/files/Tariq-Modood-article.pdf |archive-date=2013-09-21 |title=Remaking multiculturalism after 7/7 |website=Centre for Research on the European Matrix |first=Tariq |last=Modood |date=29 September 2005 |quote=The most important such form of cultural racism today is anti-Muslim racism, sometimes called Islamophobia.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims|author=Nathan Lean|isbn=978-0745332543|year=2012|publisher=Pluto Press |quote=Biological racist discourses have now been replaced by what is called the 'new racism' or 'cultural racist' discourses}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Poynting | first1 = S. | last2 = Mason | first2 = V. | doi = 10.1177/1440783307073935 | title = The resistible rise of Islamophobia: Anti-Muslim racism in the UK and Australia before 11 September 2001 | journal = Journal of Sociology | volume = 43 | pages = 61–86 | year = 2007 | issue = 1 | s2cid = 145065236 }}</ref> In their books, [[Deepa Kumar]] and Junaid Rana have argued that formation of Islamophobic discourses has paralleled the development of other forms of racial bigotry.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review: beyond "post 9/11" (''Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire'' by Deepa Kumar; ''Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora'' by Junaid Rana)|author=Erik Love|journal=Contexts| volume=12|number=1|year=2013|pages=70–72|jstor=41960426|quote=Taking these two works together, Kumar and Rana put forth a strong argument that while Islam is certainly a religion, and not a race, and Muslims (like all religious communities) are a highly diverse group in terms of ethnicity, nationality, and even racial backgrounds, Islamophobia is in fact a form of racism. Both books effectively provide historical accounts showing the parallel development of Islamophobic discourses alongside other forms of racial bigotry and discrimination.}}</ref> Similarly, [[John Denham (politician)|John Denham]] has drawn parallels between modern Islamophobia and the [[antisemitism]] of the 1930s,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6832035.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510093750/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6832035.ece|archive-date=10 May 2011|title=Fascism fears: John Denham speaks out over clashes|date=12 September 2009|access-date=18 March 2015}}</ref> as have [[Maud Olofsson]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/artikel_3674445.svd|title=Reinfeldt: Kärnan i partiets idé|author=Dan Nilsson|newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet|date=19 October 2009|access-date=18 March 2015}}</ref> and [[Jan Hjärpe]], among others.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.nasarmeer.com/uploads/7/7/4/6/7746984/meer_and_noorani_-_the_sociological_review.pdf |title=A sociological comparison of anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim sentiment in Britain |first1=Nasar |last1=Meer |first2=Tehseen |last2=Noorani |journal=[[The Sociological Review]] |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=195–219 |date=May 2008 |quote=Across Europe activists and certain academics are struggling to get across an understanding in their governments and their countries at large that anti-Muslim racism/Islamophobia is now one of the most pernicious forms of contemporary racism and that steps should be taken to combat it.|doi=10.1111/j.1467-954X.2008.00784.x |s2cid=142754091 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia – new enemies, old patterns|first1=Sabine|last1=Schiffer|first2=Constantin|last2=Wagner|date=1 January 2011|journal=Race & Class|volume=52|issue=3|pages=77–84|via=SAGE Journals|doi=10.1177/0306396810389927|s2cid=146753309}}</ref>

Others have questioned the relationship between Islamophobia and racism. Jocelyne Cesari writes that "academics are still debating the legitimacy of the term and questioning how it differs from other terms such as racism, anti-Islamism, anti-Muslimness, and anti-Semitism."<ref>Jocelyne Cesari [http://www.euro-islam.info/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/securitization_and_religious_divides_in_europe.pdf "Muslims In Western Europe After 9/11: Why the term Islamophobia is more a predicament than an explanation"] Submission to the Changing Landscape of Citizenship and Security: 6th PCRD of European Commission. 1 June 2006: p. 6</ref><ref name=cesariA>{{cite book|title=Islamophobia: The Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st Century|editor=[[John L. Esposito]]|year=2011|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0199753642|page=[https://archive.org/details/islamop_xxx_2011_00_7922/page/21 21]|url=https://archive.org/details/islamop_xxx_2011_00_7922/page/21}}</ref> Erdenir finds that "there is no consensus on the scope and content of the term and its relationship with concepts such as racism ..."<ref name=Triandafyllidou>{{cite book|title=Muslims in 21st Century Europe: Structural and Cultural Perspectives|editor=Anna Triandafyllidou|year=2010|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0415497091|page=28}}</ref> and Shryock, reviewing the use of the term across national boundaries, comes to the same conclusion.<ref name=ShryockA>{{cite book|title=Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend|editor=Andrew Shryock|year=2010|pages=6–25|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0253221995}}</ref>

Some scholars view Islamophobia and racism as partially overlapping phenomena. Diane Frost defines Islamophobia as anti-Muslim feeling and violence based on "race" or religion.<ref name=DianeFrost>{{Cite journal | last1 = Frost | first1 = D. | title = Islamophobia: Examining causal links between the media and "race hate" from "below" | doi = 10.1108/01443330810915251 | journal = International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy | volume = 28 | issue = 11/12 | pages = 564–78 | year = 2008 }}</ref> Islamophobia may also target people who have Muslim names, or have a look that is associated with Muslims.<ref name=levandehistoria>[http://www.levandehistoria.se/files/islamofobi.pdf Islamofobi – en studie av begreppet, ungdomars attityder och unga muslimers utsatthet] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119025153/http://www.levandehistoria.se/files/islamofobi.pdf |date=19 January 2012}}, published by {{ill|Forum för levande historia|sv}}
<br />[http://hdl.handle.net/1885/45034 The rise of anti-Muslim racism in Australia: who benefits?]
<br />{{cite journal | last1 = Poynting | last2 = Mason | year = 2006 | title = Tolerance, Freedom, Justice and Peace?: Britain, Australia and Anti-Muslim Racism since 11 September 2001 | journal = Journal of Intercultural Studies | volume = 27 | issue = 4| pages = 365–91 | doi = 10.1080/07256860600934973 | hdl = 2292/23817 | s2cid = 145787451 | hdl-access = free }}</ref> According to [[Alan Johnson]], Islamophobia sometimes can be nothing more than xenophobia or racism "wrapped in religious terms".<ref name=Johnson20110306>{{Cite journal |title=The Idea of 'Islamophobia'|author=Alan Johnson|date=6 March 2011|journal=[[World Affairs]]}}</ref> Sociologists Yasmin Hussain and Paul Bagguley stated that racism and Islamophobia are "analytically distinct", but "empirically inter-related".<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hussain|first1=Yasmin|last2=Bagguley|first2=Paul|name-list-style=amp|title=Securitized Citizens: Islamophobia, Racism and the 7/7 London Bombings|journal=The Sociological Review|date=November 2012|volume=60|issue=4|pages=715–734|doi=10.1111/j.1467-954X.2012.02130.x|s2cid=143355490|url=http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/80516/2/securitsedcitizens4socrevrevfinal280512%5B1%5D.pdf}}</ref>

The [[European Commission against Racism and Intolerance]] (ECRI) defines Islamophobia as "the fear of or prejudiced viewpoint towards Islam, Muslims and matters pertaining to them", adding that whether "it takes the shape of daily forms of racism and discrimination or more violent forms, Islamophobia is a violation of human rights and a threat to social cohesion".<ref name=levandedefinitioner>{{cite web|url=http://www.levandehistoria.se/fakta-fordjupning/islamofobi/definitioner-och-uttryck|title=Islamofobi – definitioner och uttryck|website=Forum för levande historia|access-date=18 March 2015}}</ref>

==Origins and causes==
{{See also|Criticism of Islam}}

===History of the term===

One early use cited as the term's first use is by the painter [[Étienne Dinet|Alphonse Étienne Dinet]] and [[Algeria]]n intellectual Sliman ben Ibrahim in their 1918 biography of Islam's prophet [[Muhammad]].<ref>{{cite book |title=La Vie de Mohammed, Prophète d'Allah |last1=Dinet |first1=Alphonse Étienne |last2=ben Ibrahim |first2=Sliman |year=1918 |location=Paris |publisher=Henri Piazza}} cited from {{Cite book|last1=Otterbeck |first1=Jonas |last2=Bevelander |first2=Pieter |year=2006 |title=Islamofobi&nbsp; – en studie av begreppet, ungdomars attityder och unga muslimars utsatthet |publisher=Forum för levande historia |location=Stockholm |language=sv |isbn=978-91-976073-6-0 |url=http://www.levandehistoria.se/files/islamofobi.pdf |access-date=23 November 2011 |quote=modern orientalists [are partially] influenced by an islamofobia, which is poorly reconciled with science and hardly worthy of our time |others=Anders Lange |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119025153/http://www.levandehistoria.se/files/islamofobi.pdf |archive-date=19 January 2012 }}</ref><ref name=Allen2010pp5-6>Allen, Christopher (2010). ''Islamophobia''. [[Ashgate Publishing]]. pp.&nbsp;5–6.</ref> Writing in French, they used the term ''{{Wikt-lang|fr|islamophobie}}''. Robin Richardson writes that in the English version of the book the word was not translated as "Islamophobia" but rather as "feelings inimical to Islam". Dahou Ezzerhouni has cited several other uses in French as early as 1910, and from 1912 to 1918.<ref>Ezzerhouni, Dahou. [http://www.algerie-focus.com/2010/02/03/lislamophobie-un-racisme-apparu-avec-les-colonisations/ "L'islamophobie, un racisme apparu avec les colonisations"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110417000408/http://www.algerie-focus.com/2010/02/03/lislamophobie-un-racisme-apparu-avec-les-colonisations/ |date=17 April 2011 }}, ''Algerie-Focus'', 3 February 2010. "Le mot serai ainsi apparu pour la première fois dans quelques ouvrages du début du XXème siècle. On peut citer entre autre « La politique musulmane dans l'Afrique Occidentale Française » d'Alain Quellien publié en 1910, suivi de quelques citations dans la ''[[Revue du monde musulman]]'' en 1912 et 1918, la Revue du Mercure de France en 1912, « Haut-Sénégal-Niger » de Maurice Delafosse en 1912 et dans le Journal of Theological Studies en 1924. L'année suivante, Etienne Dinet et Slimane Ben Brahim, employaient ce terme qui «conduit à l'aberration » dans leur ouvrage « L'Orient vu par l'Occident »."</ref> These early uses of the term did not, according to [[Chris Allen (academic)|Christopher Allen]], have the same meaning as in contemporary usage, as they described a fear of Islam by [[Liberalism and progressivism within Islam|liberal Muslims]] and [[Islamic feminism|Muslim feminists]], rather than a fear or dislike/hatred of Muslims by non-Muslims.<ref name=Allen2010pp5-6/><ref name=Allen2007>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?ots591=0c54e3b3-1e9c-be1e-2c24-a6a8c7060233&lng=en&id=45668|title=Islamophobia and its Consequences|author=Chris Allen|journal=European Islam|year=2007|pages=144–67|author-link=Chris Allen (academic)}}</ref> On the other hand, Fernando Bravo López argues that Dinet and ibn Sliman's use of the term was as a criticism of overly hostile attitudes to Islam by a Belgian orientalist, Henri Lammens, whose project they saw as a "'pseudo-scientific crusade in the hope of bringing Islam down once and for all.{{'"}} He also notes that an early definition of Islamophobia appears in the 1910 Ph.D. thesis of Alain Quellien, a French colonial bureaucrat:
<blockquote>For some, the Muslim is the natural and irreconcilable enemy of the Christian and the European; Islam is the negation of civilization, and barbarism, bad faith and cruelty are the best one can expect from the Mohammedans.</blockquote>
Furthermore, he notes that Quellien's work draws heavily on the work of the French colonial department's 1902–06 administrator, who published a work in 1906, which to a great extent mirrors [[John Esposito]]'s ''The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?''.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Bravo López | first1 = F. | title = Towards a definition of Islamophobia: Approximations of the early twentieth century | doi = 10.1080/01419870.2010.528440 | journal = Ethnic and Racial Studies | volume = 34 | issue = 4 | pages = 556–73 | year = 2011 | s2cid = 217534342 | url = https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00645104/file/PEER_stage2_10.1080%252F01419870.2010.528440.pdf }}</ref>

The first recorded use of the term in English, according to the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', was in 1923 in an article in ''[[The Journal of Theological Studies]]''.<ref name=OED/> The term entered into common usage with the publication of the Runnymede Trust's report in 1997.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Otterbeck |first1=Jonas |last2=Bevelander |first2=Pieter |year=2006 |title=Islamofobi&nbsp; – en studie av begreppet, ungdomars attityder och unga muslimars utsatthet |publisher=Forum för levande historia |location=Stockholm |language=sv |isbn=978-91-976073-6-0 |url=http://www.levandehistoria.se/files/islamofobi.pdf |access-date=23 November 2011 |others=Anders Lange |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119025153/http://www.levandehistoria.se/files/islamofobi.pdf |archive-date=19 January 2012 }}</ref> "Kofi Annan asserted at a 2004 conference entitled "Confronting Islamophobia" that the word Islamophobia had to be coined in order to "take account of increasingly widespread bigotry".<ref Name=Annan>[[Kofi Annan|Annan, Kofi]]. [https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sgsm9637.doc.htm "Secretary-General, addressing headquarters seminar Wed Confronting Islamophobia"], [[United Nations]], press release, 7 December 2004.</ref>

=== Increase in Islamophobia during 1990s ===
{{See also|Bosnian genocide}}
During the [[Yugoslav Wars]] in the 1990s, far-right Serbian Orthodox Christian militants who were heavily indoctrinated with Islamophobic sentiments, perpetrated a genocide against [[Bosniaks|Bosniak Muslims]]. Since 1989, Serbian leader [[Slobodan Milošević]] publicly disseminated Islamophobic rhetoric throughout [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], inciting [[Far right in Serbia|Serbian far-right]] militants to massacre Bosniak Muslims.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Baboulias |first=Yiannis |date=1 April 2019 |title=The Balkans Are the World Capital of Islamophobia |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/01/the-balkans-are-the-world-capital-of-islamophobia/ |work=Foreign Policy}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Sabic-El-Rayess |first=Amra |date=1 Oct 2020 |title= Today's America reminds me of 1990s Bosnia and Herzegovina |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/10/1/from-90s-bosnia-to-mordern-dayhistory-repeats-itself |work=Al Jazeera}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Najib |first=Kawtar |title=Spatialized Islamophobia |publisher=Routledge |year=2022 |isbn=978-0-367-89478-8 |location=New York |pages=32}}</ref>

The stereotyping of Bosniak Muslims as a hostile force threatening Europe with "terrorism" in Serbian propaganda was closely linked to the rise of Islamophobic narratives in [[Western media]] and [[European politics|European political]] discourse.{{sfn|Miles|Brown|2003|p=164, 165}}

===Contrasting views on Islam===
The Runnymede report contrasted "open" and "closed" views of Islam, and stated that the following "closed" views are equated with Islamophobia:<ref name="Runnymede1997">{{cite web |url= http://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/publications/pdfs/islamophobia.pdf |title= Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All |access-date= 7 May 2014 |archive-date= 26 September 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070926002939/http://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/publications/pdfs/islamophobia.pdf }}&nbsp;{{small|(69.7&nbsp;KB)}}, ''Runnymede Trust'', 1997.</ref>

:#Islam is seen as a monolithic bloc, static and unresponsive to change.
:#It is seen as separate and "other". It does not have values in common with other cultures, is not affected by them and does not influence them.
:#It is seen as inferior to the West. It is seen as barbaric, irrational, primitive, and [[sexist]].
:#It is seen as violent, aggressive, threatening, supportive of [[terrorism]], and engaged in a [[clash of civilizations]].
:#It is seen as a political [[ideology]], used for political or military advantage.
:#Criticisms made of "the West" by Muslims are rejected out of hand.
:#Hostility towards Islam is used to justify discriminatory practices towards Muslims and exclusion of Muslims from mainstream society.
:#Anti-Muslim hostility is seen as natural and normal.

These "closed" views are contrasted, in the report, with "open" views on Islam which, while founded on respect for Islam, permit legitimate disagreement, dialogue and critique.{{sfn|Benn|Jawad|2003|p=162}} According to Benn and Jawad, The Runnymede Trust notes that anti-Muslim discourse is increasingly seen as respectable, providing examples on how hostility towards Islam and Muslims is accepted as normal, even among those who may actively challenge other prevalent forms of discrimination.{{sfn|Benn|Jawad|2003|p=165}}

===Identity politics===
It has been suggested that Islamophobia is closely related to [[identity politics]], and gives its adherents the perceived benefit of constructing their identity in opposition to a negative, essentialized image of Muslims. This occurs in the form of self-righteousness, assignment of blame and key identity markers.<ref name="doving1">{{cite journal |last1=Døving |first1=Cora Alexa |year=2010 |title=Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: A Comparison of Imposed Group Identities |journal=Tidsskrift for Islamforskning |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=52–76 |doi=10.7146/tifo.v4i2.24596 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Davina Bhandar writes that:<ref name="Bhandar">{{Cite journal | last1 = Bhandar | first1 = D. | title = Cultural politics: Disciplining citizenship | doi = 10.1080/13621021003731963 | journal = Citizenship Studies | volume = 14 | issue = 3 | pages = 331–43 | year = 2010 | s2cid = 146490574 }}</ref>

{{Blockquote|text=[...] the term 'cultural' has become synonymous with the category of the ethnic or minority [...]. It views culture as an entity that is highly abstracted from the practices of daily life and therefore represents the illusion that there exists a spirit of the people. This formulation leads to the homogenisation of cultural identity and the ascription of particular values and proclivities onto minority cultural groups.}}

She views this as an [[ontology|ontological]] trap that hinders the perception of culture as something "materially situated in the living practices of the everyday, situated in time-space and not based in abstract projections of what constitutes either a particular tradition or culture."

In some societies, Islamophobia has materialized due to the portrayal of Islam and Muslims as the national "[[Other (philosophy)|Other]]", where exclusion and discrimination occurs on the basis of their religion and civilization which differs with national tradition and identity. Examples include Pakistani and Algerian migrants in Britain and France respectively.{{sfn|Poole|2003|p=216}}{{sfn|Miles|Brown|2003|p=163}} This sentiment, according to Malcolm Brown and Robert Miles, significantly interacts with [[racism]], although Islamophobia itself is not racism.{{sfn|Miles|Brown|2003|p=163}}{{sfn|Miles|Brown|2003|p=164}} Author [[Doug Saunders]] has drawn parallels between [[Islamophobia in the United States]] and its older [[Anti-Catholicism in the United States|discrimination and hate against Roman Catholics]], saying that Catholicism was seen as backwards and imperial, while Catholic immigrants had poorer education and some were responsible for crime and terrorism.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Saunders|first=Doug|author-link=Doug Saunders|date=2012-09-17|title=Opinion: Catholics Then, Muslims Now|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/opinion/catholics-then-muslims-now.html|access-date=2014-02-18|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>{{sfn|Haddad|2002|p=19}}<ref>''Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All (Summary)'', Runnymede Trust, 1997, p. 1, cited in {{cite book |last=Quraishi |first=Muzammil |title=Muslims and crime: a comparative study |publisher=[[Ashgate Publishing]] |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-7546-4233-6 |location=Aldershot, Hants, England |page=60}}</ref>

Brown and Miles write that another feature of Islamophobic discourse is to amalgamate nationality (e.g. Saudi), religion (Islam), and politics (terrorism, fundamentalism)&nbsp;– while most other religions are not associated with terrorism, or even "ethnic or national distinctiveness".{{sfn|Miles|Brown|2003|p=163}} They feel that "many of the stereotypes and misinformation that contribute to the articulation of Islamophobia are rooted in a particular perception of Islam", such as the notion that Islam promotes terrorism&nbsp;– especially prevalent after the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]].{{sfn|Miles|Brown|2003|p=166}}

The two-way stereotyping resulting from Islamophobia has in some instances resulted in mainstreaming of earlier controversial discourses, such as liberal attitudes towards gender equality<ref name="doving1"/><ref name="Bhandar"/> and homosexuals.<ref name=Mepschen2010>{{Cite journal | last1 = Mepschen | first1 = P. | last2 = Duyvendak | first2 = J. W. | last3 = Tonkens | first3 = E. H. | doi = 10.1177/0038038510375740 | title = Sexual Politics, Orientalism and Multicultural Citizenship in the Netherlands | journal = Sociology | volume = 44 | issue = 5 | pages = 962–79 | year = 2010 | s2cid = 85645153 }}</ref> Christina Ho has warned against framing of such mainstreaming of gender equality in a [[colonialism|colonial]], [[paternalism|paternal]] discourse, arguing that this may undermine minority women's ability to speak out about their concerns.<ref name=Ho2007>{{Cite journal | last = Ho | first = Christina | title = Muslim women's new defenders: Women's rights, nationalism and Islamophobia in contemporary Australia | journal = [[Women's Studies International Forum]] | volume = 30 | issue = 4 | pages = 290–98 | doi = 10.1016/j.wsif.2007.05.002 | date = July–August 2007 | hdl = 10453/3255 | url = https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/3255/3/2006009025.pdf | hdl-access = free }}</ref>

[[Steven Salaita]] contends that, since 9/11, [[Arab Americans]] have evolved from what Nadine Naber described as an invisible group in the United States into a highly visible community that directly or indirectly has an effect on the United States' culture wars, foreign policy, presidential elections and legislative tradition.<ref>{{Cite journal|url = https://muse.jhu.edu/article/209750/summary|title = Beyond Orientalism and Islamophobia: 9/11, Anti-Arab Racism, and the Mythos of National Pride|last = Salaita|first = Steven|date = Fall 2006|journal = CR: The New Centennial Review|doi = 10.1353/ncr.2007.0011|access-date = 20 November 2015|issue = 2|volume = 6|pages = 245–266|s2cid = 143847106|url-access = subscription}}</ref>

The academics S. Sayyid and Abdoolkarim Vakil maintain that Islamophobia is a response to the emergence of a distinct Muslim public identity globally, the presence of Muslims in itself not being an indicator of the degree of Islamophobia in a society. Sayyid and Vakil maintain that there are societies where virtually no Muslims live but many institutionalized forms of Islamophobia still exist in them.<ref name=Sayyid&Vakil>{{cite book |last1=Sayyid |first1=Salman |author-link=Salman Sayyid |last2=Vakil |first2=Abdoolkarim |year=2010 |title=Thinking Through Islamophobia: Global Perspectives |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=glHhHIaCm9AC |location=New York |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |page=319 |isbn=9780231702065}}</ref>

===Links to ideologies===
[[File:CPA DSC05617 (14603953826).jpg|thumb|The [[2014 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka]] followed rallies by [[Bodu Bala Sena]] (BBS), a hard-line Buddhist group.]]
[[File:Pastor Terry Jones Marching in DC (5497386725).jpg|thumb|An anti-Islam protest in the United States]]

Cora Alexa Døving, a senior scientist at the Norwegian [[Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities (Norway)|Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities]], argues that there are significant similarities between Islamophobic discourse and European pre-Nazi antisemitism.<ref name="doving1"/> Among the concerns are imagined threats of minority growth and domination, threats to traditional institutions and customs, skepticism of integration, threats to [[secularism]], fears of sexual crimes, fears of [[misogyny]], fears based on historical cultural inferiority, hostility to modern Western [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] values, etc.

{{ill|Matti Bunzl|de}} has argued that there are important differences between Islamophobia and antisemitism. While antisemitism was a phenomenon closely connected to European [[nation-building]] processes, he sees Islamophobia as having the concern of European civilization as its focal point.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Anti-semitism and Islamophobia: hatreds old and new in Europe |last=Bunzl |first=Matti |year=2007 |publisher=Prickly Paradigm Press |location=Chicago |isbn=978-0-9761475-8-9 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=37UsAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Islamophobic+claims%22 |access-date=23 November 2011}}</ref> Døving, on the other hand, maintains that, at least in Norway, the Islamophobic discourse has a clear national element.<ref name="doving1"/> In a reply to Bunzl, French scholar of Jewish history, [[Esther Benbassa]], agrees with him in that he draws a clear connection between modern hostile and essentializing sentiments towards Muslims and historical antisemitism. However, she argues against the use of the term ''Islamophobia'', since, in her opinion, it attracts unwarranted attention to an underlying racist current.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatred Old and New in Europe |chapter=Xenophobia, Anti-Semitism, and Racism |last=Benbassa |first=Esther |year=2007 |publisher=Prickly Paradigm Press |location=Chicago |isbn=978-0-9761475-8-9 |pages=86ff |chapter-url=http://www.estherbenbassa.net/SCANS/XENOPHOBIA.PDF |access-date=23 November 2011 |editor-last=Bunzl |editor-first=Matti}}</ref>

The head of the Media Responsibility Institute in [[Erlangen]], Sabine Schiffer, and researcher Constantin Wagner, who also define Islamophobia as anti-Muslim racism, outline additional similarities and differences between Islamophobia and antisemitism.<ref name =schiffer>{{Cite journal | last1 = Schiffer | first1 = S. | last2 = Wagner | first2 = C. | doi = 10.1177/0306396810389927 | title = Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia – new enemies, old patterns | journal = Race & Class | volume = 52 | issue = 3 | pages = 77–84 | year = 2011 | s2cid = 146753309 }}</ref> They point out the existence of equivalent notions such as "Judaisation/Islamisation", and metaphors such as "a state within a state" are used in relation to both Jews and Muslims. In addition, both discourses make use of, among other rhetorical instruments, "religious imperatives" supposedly "proven" by religious sources, and conspiracy theories.

The differences between Islamophobia and antisemitism consist of the nature of the perceived threats to the "[[Christian West]]". Muslims are perceived as "inferior" and as a visible "external threat", while on the other hand, Jews are perceived as "omnipotent" and as an invisible "internal threat". However, Schiffer and Wagner also note that there is a growing tendency to view Muslims as a privileged group that constitute an "internal threat" and that this convergence between the two discources makes "it more and more necessary to use findings from the study of anti-Semitism to analyse Islamophobia". Schiffer and Wagner conclude,

{{Blockquote|The achievement in the study of anti-Semitism of examining Jewry and anti-Semitism separately must also be transferred to other racisms, such as Islamophobia. We do not need more information about Islam, but more information about the making of racist stereotypes in general.}}

The publication ''Social Work and Minorities: European Perspectives'' describes Islamophobia as the new form of racism in Europe,{{sfn|Williams|Soydan|Johnson|1998|p=182}} arguing that "Islamophobia is as much a form of racism as [[anti-semitism]], a term more commonly encountered in Europe as a sibling of racism, xenophobia and intolerance."{{sfn|Williams|Soydan|Johnson|1998|p=22}} [[Edward Said]] considers Islamophobia as it is evinced in [[Orientalism]] to be a trend in a more general antisemitic Western tradition.<ref>Edward W. Said, 'Orientalism Reconsidered' in Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iversen, Diana Loxley (eds),'' Literature, Politics, and Theory,'' Methuen & Co, London 1986 pp. 210229, pp. 220ff.</ref><ref>[[Bryan S. Turner (sociologist)|Bryan Stanley Turner]], introd. to Bryan S. Turner (ed.) ''Orientalism: Early Sources'', (Vol 1, Readings in Orientalism), Routledge, London (2000) reprint 2002 p. 12</ref> Others note that there has been a transition from anti-Asian and anti-Arab racism to anti-Muslim racism,<ref>[http://jos.sagepub.com/content/43/1/61.abstract The resistible rise of Islamophobia – Anti-Muslim racism in the UK and Australia before 11 September 2001], [[Journal of Sociology]] March 2007 vol. 43 no. 1 61–86</ref> while some note a racialization of religion.<ref>[https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/23061/ssoar-ethnicities-2007-4-dunn_et_al-contemporary_racism_and_islamaphobia_in.pdf?sequence=1 Contemporary racism and Islamaphobia in Australia – Racializing religion], Ethnicities December 2007 vol. 7 no. 4 564–589</ref>

According to a 2012 report by a UK anti-racism group, [[counterjihad|counter-jihadist]] outfits in Europe and North America are becoming more cohesive by forging alliances, with 190 groups now identified as promoting an Islamophobic agenda.<ref name = "MaTo 14Apr2012">{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/14/breivik-trial-norway-mass-murderer |title= Far-right anti-Muslim network on rise globally as Breivik trial opens |author= Mark Townsend |date= 14 April 2012 |work= guardian.co.uk |access-date= 15 April 2012 |location=London}}</ref> In ''Islamophobia and its consequences on young people'' (p.&nbsp;6) Ingrid Ramberg writes "Whether it takes the shape of daily forms of racism and discrimination or more violent forms, Islamophobia is a violation of human rights and a threat to social cohesion." Professor [[John Esposito]] of [[Georgetown University]] calls Islamophobia "the new anti-Semitism".<ref name="thestar.com">{{cite news| url=https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/1055298--islamophobia-the-new-anti-semitism |title=Islamophobia: The new anti-Semitism| location=Toronto | work=The Star}}</ref>

In their 2018 American Muslim Poll, the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding found that when it came to their Islamophobia index (see Public Opinion), they found that those who scored higher on the index, (i.e. more islamophobic) were, "associated with 1) greater acceptance of targeting civilians, whether it is a military or individual/small group that is doling out the violence, 2) greater acquiescence to limiting both press freedoms and institutional checks following a hypothetical terror attack, and 3) greater support for the so-called "Muslim ban" and the surveillance of American mosques (or their outright building prohibition)."<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.ispu.org/american-muslim-poll-2018-full-report/|title=American Muslim Poll 2018: Full Report {{!}} ISPU|date=2018-04-30|website=Institute for Social Policy and Understanding|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-05}}</ref>

[[Mohamed Nimer]] compares Islamophobia with anti-Americanism. He argues that while both Islam and America can be subject to legitimate criticisms without detesting a people as a whole, bigotry against both are on the rise.<ref name="NimerA">{{cite book|title=Islamophobia: The Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st Century|editor=[[John L. Esposito]]|author=Mohamed Nimer|year=2011|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0199753642|page=[https://archive.org/details/islamop_xxx_2011_00_7922/page/76 76]|url=https://archive.org/details/islamop_xxx_2011_00_7922/page/76}}</ref>

[[Gideon Rachman]] wrote in 2019 of a "[[Clash of Civilizations|clash of civilizations]]" between Muslim and non-Muslim nations, linking anti-Islam [[Radicalization|radicalisation]] outside the Muslim world to the rise of intolerant [[Islamism]] in some Muslim countries that used to be relatively free from that ideology.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Gideon Rachman|date=February 18, 2019|title=Islamophobia and the new clash of civilisations|work=[[Financial Times]]|url=https://www.ft.com/content/12cf16a0-335d-11e9-bb0c-42459962a812|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210914032325/https://www.ft.com/content/12cf16a0-335d-11e9-bb0c-42459962a812%23comments-anchor|archive-date=2021-09-14}}</ref>

[[Islam and blasphemy|Blasphemy of Islam]] has been described as Islamophobia, while some countries consider [[blasphemy]] legal as [[freedom of speech]].<ref name="n746">{{cite journal | last1=Í Skorini | first1=Heini | last2=Dyrberg | first2=Torben Bech | title=Framing Blasphemy as a crime: the curious similarities between the secular left and the organization of Islamic cooperation | journal=Journal of Political Ideologies | date=17 February 2022 | volume=29 | issue=3 | issn=1356-9317 | doi=10.1080/13569317.2022.2040878 | pages=550–570}}</ref>

===Opposition to multiculturalism===
According to Gabrielle Maranci, the increasing Islamophobia in the West is related to a rising [[Criticism of multiculturalism|repudiation of multiculturalism]]. Maranci concludes that "Islamophobia is a 'phobia' of multiculturalism and the transruptive effect that Islam can have in Europe and the West through transcultural processes."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Marranci |first1=Gabriele |title=Multiculturalism, Islam and the clash of civilisations theory: rethinking Islamophobia |journal=Culture and Religion |date=March 2004 |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=116''ff'' |doi=10.1080/0143830042000200373|s2cid=55652492 }}</ref>

==Manifestations==
[[File:Christchurch mosque shootings memorial flower wall.jpg|thumb|Flower wall memorial erected after mass-shootings in March 2019 targeting [[Al Noor Mosque, Christchurch|Al-Noor Mosque]] and [[Linwood Islamic Centre]] in [[Christchurch|Christchurch City]], [[New Zealand]]. The [[terrorist]] attack was motivated by [[far-right extremism]] and resulted in 51 deaths.]]

===Media===
{{main|Islamophobia in the media}}

According to [[Elizabeth Poole]] in the ''Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies'', the media have been criticized for perpetrating Islamophobia. She cites a case study examining a sample of articles in the [[British press]] from between 1994 and 2004, which concluded that Muslim viewpoints were underrepresented and that issues involving Muslims usually depicted them in a negative light. Such portrayals, according to Poole, include the depiction of Islam and Muslims as a threat to Western security and [[European values|values]].{{sfn|Poole|2003|p=217}} Benn and Jawad write that hostility towards Islam and Muslims are "closely linked to media portrayals of Islam as barbaric, irrational, primitive and sexist."{{sfn|Benn|Jawad|2003|p=165}} Egorova and Tudor cite European researchers in suggesting that expressions used in the media such as "Islamic terrorism", "Islamic bombs" and "violent Islam" have resulted in a negative perception of Islam.<ref name=egorova>See Egorova; Tudor (2003) pp. 2–3, which cites the conclusions of Marquina and Rebolledo in: "A. Marquina, V. G. Rebolledo, 'The Dialogue between the European Union and the Islamic World' in Interreligious Dialogues: Christians, Jews, Muslims, Annals of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, v. 24, no. 10, Austria, 2000, pp. 166–68. "</ref> John E. Richardson's 2004 book ''(Mis)representing Islam: the racism and rhetoric of British broadsheet newspapers'', criticized the [[Media of the United Kingdom|British media]] for propagating negative [[Stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in the United States|stereotypes of Muslims]] and fueling [[Anti-Muslim prejudice in the United Kingdom|anti-Muslim prejudice]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Richardson|first=John E.|title=(Mis)representing Islam: the racism and rhetoric of British broadsheet newspapers|publisher=[[John Benjamins Publishing Company]]|year=2004|isbn=978-90-272-2699-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WanqiF2XULsC}}</ref> In another study conducted by John E. Richardson, he found that 85% of mainstream newspaper articles treated Muslims as a homogeneous mass and portrayed them as a threat to British society.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Richardson | first1 = J. E. | year = 2009 | title = 'Get Shot of the Lot of Them': Election Reporting of Muslims in British Newspapers | journal = Patterns of Prejudice | volume = 43 | issue = 3–4| pages = 355–77 | doi=10.1080/00313220903109276| s2cid = 145772695 }}</ref>

The [[University of Georgia|Universities of Georgia]] and [[University of Alabama|Alabama]] in the [[United States]] conducted a study comparing media coverage of "terrorist attacks" committed by Islamist militants with those of non-Muslims in the United States.&nbsp; Researchers found that "terrorist attacks" by Islamist militants receive 357% more [[Mass media|media]] attention than attacks committed by non-Muslims or whites. Terrorist attacks committed by non-Muslims (or where the religion was unknown) received an average of 15 headlines, while those committed by Muslim extremists received 105 headlines. The study was based on an analysis of news reports covering [[List of terrorist incidents|terrorist attacks]] in the United States between 2005 and 2015.<ref>{{Cite news|author=Chalabi, Mona|date=July 20, 2018|title=Terror attacks by Muslims receive 357% more press attention, study finds|language=en-GB|work=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/20/muslim-terror-attacks-press-coverage-study|access-date=December 4, 2020|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Staff|date=February 19, 2019|title=Terror Attacks By Muslims Get 357 percent More Media Coverage Than Other Terror Attacks, Study Shows|url=https://news.gsu.edu/2019/02/19/terror-attacks-by-muslims-get-disproportionate-news-coverage/|access-date=December 15, 2020|website=Georgia State News Hub|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kearns|first1=Erin M.|last2=Betus|first2=Allison E.|last3=Lemieux|first3=Anthony F.|date=2019-09-19|title=Why Do Some Terrorist Attacks Receive More Media Attention Than Others?|journal=Justice Quarterly|volume=36|issue=6|pages=985–1022|doi=10.1080/07418825.2018.1524507|s2cid=220405703|issn=0741-8825}}</ref> This was despite the fact that [[Far right extremists|far-right extremists]] were responsible for almost double the number of [[Domestic terrorist attacks in the United States|terrorist acts in US]] attributed to Muslim individuals between 2008 and 2016. In spite of this disparity, US and UK governments have been negligent in confronting [[far-right terrorist]]s, instead focusing almost all their [[Counterterrorism|counter-terrorism]] resources on imposing surveillance measures on Muslim population and censoring Muslim activists. Many right-wing politicians have also engaged in anti-Muslim rhetoric, indirectly motivating far-right groups to intensify violent hate crimes against Muslims.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chalabi |first=Mona |date=20 July 2018 |title=Terror attacks by Muslims receive 357% more press attention, study finds |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/20/muslim-terror-attacks-press-coverage-study |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216092039/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/20/muslim-terror-attacks-press-coverage-study |archive-date=16 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Neiwert |first=David |date=22 June 2017 |title=Far-right extremists have hatched far more terror plots than anyone else in recent years |work=Reveal News |url=https://revealnews.org/article/home-is-where-the-hate-is/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724031754/https://revealnews.org/article/home-is-where-the-hate-is/ |archive-date=24 July 2019}}</ref>

In 2009, [[Mehdi Hasan]] in the ''[[New Statesman]]'' criticized [[Western media]] for over-reporting a few [[Islamist terrorist]] incidents but under-reporting the much larger number of planned non-Islamist terrorist attacks carried out by "non-Irish [[White people|white]] folks".<ref>{{cite web|title=Know your enemy|author=Mehdi Hasan|website=[[New Statesman]]|date=9 July 2009|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/2009/07/mehdi-hasan-muslim-terrorism-white-british|access-date=9 April 2010}}</ref> A 2012 study indicates that Muslims across different European countries, such as France, Germany and the United Kingdom, experience the highest degree of Islamophobia in the media.<ref name=kunst2012b/> Media personalities have been accused of Islamophobia. The obituary in ''[[The Guardian]]'' for the Italian journalist [[Oriana Fallaci]] described her as "notorious for her Islamaphobia" {{sic}}.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/italy/story/0,1873911,00.html Obituary of Oriana Fallaci] – [[The Guardian]], 16 September 2006. "''Controversial Italian journalist famed for her interviews and war reports but notorious for her Islamaphobia''"</ref> The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding published a report in 2018 where they stated, "In terms of print media coverage, Muslim-perceived perpetrators received twice the absolute quantity of media coverage as their non-Muslim counterparts in the cases of violent completed acts. For "foiled" plots, they received seven and half times the media coverage as their counterparts."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imv-report.org/|title=Equal Treatment? Measuring the Legal and Media Responses to Ideologically Motivated Violence in the US|website=The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-05}}</ref>

Nathan Lean used the term "Islamophobia industry" in the 2012 book ''The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims'' to describe how certain ideologies and political proclivities have converged to advance the same agenda.<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims|last = Lean|first = Nathan|publisher = Pluto Press|year = 2012|page = 66}}</ref> The "Islamophobia industry" has since been discussed by other scholars including Joseph Kaminski,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kaminski |first1=Joseph |title=The Islamophobia Industry, Hate, and Its Impact on Muslim Immigrants and OIC State Development |journal=Islamophobia Studies Journal |date=2014 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=157–176 |doi=10.13169/islastudj.2.2.0157 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Hatem Bazian,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bazian |first1=Hatem |title=The Islamophobia Industry and the Demonization of Palestine: Implications for American Studies |journal=American Quarterly |date=21 December 2015 |volume=67 |issue=4 |pages=1057–1066 |doi=10.1353/aq.2015.0073 |s2cid=146731799 |issn=1080-6490}}</ref> Arlene Stein, Zakia Salime, [[Reza Aslan]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stein |first1=Arlene |last2=Salime |first2=Zakia |title=Manufacturing Islamophobia: Rightwing Pseudo-Documentaries and the Paranoid Style |journal=Journal of Communication Inquiry |date=1 February 2015 |volume=281 |issue=4 |pages=2015–1 |doi=10.1177/0196859915569385 |s2cid=145266067 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271907367}}</ref> Erdoan A. Shipoli, and [[Deepa Kumar]], the latter drawing a comparison between the "Islamophobia industry" and [[Cold War]] era [[McCarthyism]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Shipoli |first=Erdoan A. |title=Islam, Securitization, and US Foreign Policy |date=2018 |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]] |isbn=9783319711119 |page=116 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE5aDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA116}}</ref>

Some media outlets are working explicitly against Islamophobia. In 2008 [[Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting]] ("FAIR") published a study "Smearcasting, How Islamophobes Spread Bigotry, Fear and Misinformation". The report cites several instances where mainstream or close to mainstream journalists, authors and academics have made analyses that essentialize negative traits as an inherent part of Muslims' moral makeup.<ref>{{cite web |last = Rendall |first = Steve |title = Making Islamophobia Mainstream: How Muslim-bashers broadcast their bigotry |date = 2008-11-01 |publisher = [[Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting]] |url = https://fair.org/extra/making-islamophobia-mainstream/ |access-date = 2023-06-07}}</ref> FAIR also established the "[[Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism]]", designed to monitor coverage in the media and establish dialogue with media organizations. Following the [[September 11 attacks|attacks of 11 September 2001]], the [[Islamic Society of Britain]]'s "Islam Awareness Week" and the "Best of British Islam Festival" were introduced to improve community relations and raise awareness about Islam.<ref>Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic studies, p. 218</ref>

Silva and Meaux et al both theorized that one of the main causes of negative interactions, [[Stigmatization|stigma]], and [[Social exclusion|marginalization]] toward the Arabic community is due to the fact that many media framing from news outlets tend to associate [[Arab Muslims|Arab-Muslims]] with [[terrorism]] and [[Jihadism|jihadist]]-inspired motivations when it came to mass violence incidents.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> Silva noted in their research looking through [[The New York Times|New York Times]] articles about gun violence and noted that over the sixteen-year period of 2000 until 2016 this media framing would only increase through the time period.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Silva |first=Jason R. |date=2021-09-13 |title=The news media's framing of mass shootings: gun access, mental illness, violent entertainment, and terrorism |journal=Actual Problems of Economics and Law |volume=15 |issue=2 |doi=10.21202/1993-047x.15.2021.2.332-359 |s2cid=225520354 |issn=1993-047X|doi-access=free }}</ref> Silva compared his results to find out that Arabic [[Suspect|perpetrators]] were significantly more like to be framed as terrorists than their White counterparts. Meaux et al note back to research conducted by Park et al that indicated that the most salient association that Americans held on to was Arab-Muslims to terrorism with the notion that people that believed in this association the strongest were more likely to hold implicit bias.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last1=Meaux |first1=Lauren T. |last2=Doran |first2=Stephanie C. |last3=Cox |first3=Jennifer M. |date=2020-11-26 |title=Aberration of mind or soul: the role of media in perceptions of mass violence |url=https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JACPR-07-2020-0526/full/html |journal=Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research |language=en |volume=12 |issue=4 |pages=209–222 |doi=10.1108/JACPR-07-2020-0526 |s2cid=229434546 |issn=1759-6599|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Park |first1=Sung-Yeon |last2=Holody |first2=Kyle J. |last3=Zhang |first3=Xiaoqun |date=September 2012 |title=Race in Media Coverage of School Shootings: A Parallel Application of Framing Theory and Attribute Agenda Setting |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077699012448873 |journal=Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly |language=en |volume=89 |issue=3 |pages=475–494 |doi=10.1177/1077699012448873 |s2cid=143792318 |issn=1077-6990|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

=== Movies ===
[[File:Jews Say No to Genocide-Hollywood Protest for a Ceasefire in Gaza.jpg|thumb|Pro-Palestinian protest in Los Angeles against the [[Gaza war|war in Gaza]] and Hollywood's role in dehumanizing Muslims, November 2023]]
Throughout the twentieth century, Muslim characters were portrayed in [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] often negatively and with [[Orientalism|Orientalist]] stereotypes visualising them as being "uncivilised". Since the [[Post-9/11]] era, in addition to these tropes, a securitization of Muslims; portraying them as a threat to the [[Western world]], have drastically increased in movie depictions.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Senanayake |first=Harsha |date=2021 |title=Hollywood and Wicked Other: The Identity Formation of "Western Us" Versus "Muslim Others" |journal=Open Political Science |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=64–67 |doi=10.1515/openps-2021-0007 |s2cid=231920684 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

There are growing instances of Islamophobia in Hindi cinema, or [[Bollywood]], in films such as ''[[Aamir (2008 film)|Aamir]]'' (2008), ''[[New York (2009 film)|New York]]'' (2009) and ''[[My Name is Khan]]'' (2010), which corresponds to a growing anti-minorities sentiment that followed the resurgence of the [[Hindu right]].<ref>Gabriel, Karen, "[https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/5371904/SAJ_Paper__Sent_.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DThe_Country_in_the_City_The_Bye-lanes_of.pdf&Expires=1595688602&Signature=fsxwAJGfDzqhdLuX1LkehpIdphorrpgqurLHm0dI5J1efjT3e4fjwJNGfG9B1OucITPtwIzar9QQjOufCTI1~eimaFweW~4YSlrOzHFwreVN8-rCijwVgXhYd6E0LolmhvHMVMsJr8Ga0StJXyPq8EcpezZ7VFiZXmPZBDQiI9uXFXoNvTgWO4kBNic7JIroeRsA6zI0t8lRR2jgt5zzY2hUrEAXzeNqP1oVuTEXD3ET1ZdF~Gnzi1ev8joS4U4tce-aWIXfhHFIQk7ojm8v2F2fGklVcGrUbzXrOCT7814HJ5YIrqe55KyxyYRvQcNINuBjoq3ppN~Q4j-PBemsPA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA The Country in the City: The Bye-lanes of Identity] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725135530/https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/5371904/SAJ_Paper__Sent_.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DThe_Country_in_the_City_The_Bye-lanes_of.pdf&Expires=1595688602&Signature=fsxwAJGfDzqhdLuX1LkehpIdphorrpgqurLHm0dI5J1efjT3e4fjwJNGfG9B1OucITPtwIzar9QQjOufCTI1~eimaFweW~4YSlrOzHFwreVN8-rCijwVgXhYd6E0LolmhvHMVMsJr8Ga0StJXyPq8EcpezZ7VFiZXmPZBDQiI9uXFXoNvTgWO4kBNic7JIroeRsA6zI0t8lRR2jgt5zzY2hUrEAXzeNqP1oVuTEXD3ET1ZdF~Gnzi1ev8joS4U4tce-aWIXfhHFIQk7ojm8v2F2fGklVcGrUbzXrOCT7814HJ5YIrqe55KyxyYRvQcNINuBjoq3ppN~Q4j-PBemsPA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA |date=25 July 2020 }}", ''South Asian Journal Special Issue Cinema in South Asia'', July – September 2010 pp. 53–64.</ref><ref>Gabriel, Karen and P. K. Vijayan, "Orientalism, Terrorism and Bombay Cinema", (2012) ''Journal of Postcolonial Writing Special Issue on Orientalism and Terrorism'', July 2012 volume 48, number 3, pp. 299–310. {{doi|10.1080/17449855.2012.678744}}.</ref>

===Organizations===
{{See also|List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups#Anti-Muslim}}
[[File:English Defence League protest in Newcastle.jpg|thumb|left|An English Defence League demonstration. The placard reads ''Shut down the mosque command and control centre''.]]
A report from the [[University of California Berkeley]] and the [[Council on American–Islamic Relations]] estimated that {{US$|206 million|long=no}} was funded to 33 groups whose primary purpose was "to promote prejudice against, or hatred of, Islam and Muslims" in the United States between 2008 and 2013, with a total of 74 groups contributing to [[Islamophobia in the United States]] during that period.<ref>{{cite news |title=Funding fear of Muslims: $206m went to promoting 'hatred', report finds |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/20/islamophobia-funding-cair-berkeley-report |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=June 20, 2016 |language=en}}</ref>

[[Stop Islamization of America]] (SIOA) and the ''Freedom Defense Initiative'' are designated as [[hate groups]] by the [[Anti-Defamation League]]<ref>[[Anti-Defamation League]], [http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/sioa.htm "Backgrounder: Stop Islamization of America (SIOA)"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502054200/http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/sioa.htm |date=2 May 2012 }}, ''Extremism'', 25 March 2011 [26 August 2010]. Retrieved 16 February 2012.</ref> and the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]].<ref>{{Cite news |work=The Intelligence Report |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |url=http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2011/summer/jihad-against-islam |date=Summer 2011 |issue=142 |first=Robert |last=Steinback |title=Jihad Against Islam}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Pamela Geller & Stop Islamization of America|url=http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/pamela-geller|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|access-date=27 June 2011}}</ref><ref name=nydaily>{{Cite news |url=http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-02-25/local/28647400_1_islamic-center-anti-islamic-pamela-geller |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815092825/http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-02-25/local/28647400_1_islamic-center-anti-islamic-pamela-geller |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 August 2011 |work=New York Daily News |date=25 February 2011 |first=Corky |title=Southern Poverty Law Center lists anti-Islamic NYC blogger Pamela Geller, followers a hate group |last=Siemaszko}}</ref> In August 2012 SIOA generated media publicity by sponsoring billboards in [[New York City Subway]] stations claiming there had been 19,250 terrorist attacks by Muslims since 9/11 and stating "it's not Islamophobia, it's Islamorealism."<ref>*[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-islamic-ad-claiming-its-not-islamophobia-its-islamorealism-goes-up-in-ny-train-stations/ Anti-Islamic ad claiming "it's not Islamophobia, it's Islamorealism" goes up in NY train stations], [[Associated Press]], 17 August 2012. Note that [[Bryan Fischer]], Director of Issues Analysis for the [[American Family Association]] also used the phrase "Islamo-realism" in the column [http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/fischer/100504 Times Square another argument for restricting Muslim immigration], 4 May 2010.</ref> It later ran advertisements reading "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad." Several groups condemned the advertisements as "hate speech" about all Muslims.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/pro-muslim-subway-ads-to-hang-near-anti-jihad-ads/|newspaper=The New York Times|title=Pro-Muslim Subway Ads to Hang Near Anti-Jihad Ads|date=4 Oct 2012|author=Ashwaq Masood}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Jewish Council for Public Affairs|title=JCPA Condemns Bigoted, Divisive, and Unhelpful Anti-Muslim Ads|url=http://engage.jewishpublicaffairs.org/blog/comments.jsp?key=477&blog_entry_KEY=6561&t=|publisher=JCPA|access-date=21 September 2012|archive-date=28 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928194920/http://engage.jewishpublicaffairs.org/blog/comments.jsp?key=477&blog_entry_KEY=6561&t=|url-status=dead}}</ref> In early January 2013 the Freedom Defense Initiative put up advertisements next to 228 clocks in 39 New York subway stations showing the 2001 [[September 11 attacks|attacks on the World Trade Center]] with a quote attributed to the 151st verse of chapter 3 of the Quran: "Soon shall we cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=3&verse=151|title=The Quranic Arabic Corpus – Translation|website=corpus.quran.com}}</ref><ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-anti-muslim-ads-up-in-nyc-subway-stations/ New anti-Muslim ads up in NYC subway stations], [[CBS News]], 9 January 2013.</ref> The [[New York City Transit Authority]], which said it would have to carry the advertisements on [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] grounds, insisted that 25% of the ad contain a Transit Authority disclaimer.<ref>{{Cite news |last = Epstein |first = Emily Anne |date = 2012-12-07 |title = New Anti-Islam Ads to Debut This Month, Now With 25% More MTA Disclaimer |work = [[The New York Observer]] |url = https://observer.com/2012/12/pamela-geller-mta-new-anti-islam-ads-to-debut-this-month-now-with-25-more-mta-disclaimer/ |access-date = 2023-01-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/nyregion/controversial-group-has-new-anti-jihad-subway-ads.html?ref=nyregion&_r=1&|title=Controversial Group Plans More Ads in Subway Stations|date=13 Dec 2012|newspaper=New York Times|author=Matt Flegenheimer}}</ref> These advertisements also were criticized.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hussain|first=Murtaza|date=2012-12-31|title=Opinion: Anti-Muslim violence spiralling out of control in America|publisher=[[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al-Jazeera]]|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2012/12/31/anti-muslim-violence-spiralling-out-of-control-in-america|access-date=2023-01-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Ali|first=Wajahat|date=2012-12-31|title=Death by brown skin: An Indian immigrant's subway tragedy is a reminder of a destructive Islamophobia that has spread across the country|url=https://www.salon.com/2012/12/31/death_by_brown_skin/|access-date=2023-01-02|website=[[Salon.com]]}}</ref>

The [[English Defence League]] (EDL), an organization in the United Kingdom, has been described as anti-Muslim. It was formed in 2009 to oppose what it considers to be a spread of Islamism, Sharia law and [[Islamic extremism]] in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.academia.edu/545302|title=Differentiating Islamophobia: Introducing a new scale to measure Islamoprejudice and Secular Islam Critique |website=Academia |author=Roland Imhoff|access-date=18 March 2015}}</ref> The EDL's former leader, [[Tommy Robinson]], left the group in 2013 saying it had become too extreme and that street protests were ineffective.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/08/tommy-robinson-english-defence-league|title=Tommy Robinson quits EDL saying it has become 'too extreme'|author=Haroon Siddique|date=8 October 2013|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref>

Furthermore, the [[7 July 2005 London bombings]] and the resulting efforts of the British civil and law enforcement authorities to help seek British Muslims' help in identifying potential threats to create prevention is observed by Michael Lavalette as institutionalized Islamophobia. Lavalette alleges that there is a continuity between the former two British governments over prevention that aims to stop young Muslim people from being misled, misdirected and recruited by extremists who exploit grievances for their own "jihadist" endeavors. Asking and concentrating on Muslim communities and young Muslims to prevent future instances, by the authorities, is in itself Islamophobia as such since involvement of Muslim communities will highlight and endorse their compassion for Britain and negate the perceived threats from within their communities.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Race, Racism and Social Work: Contemporary issues and debates|last = Lavalette|first = Michael|publisher = Policy Press at the University of Bristol|year = 2014|location = England|pages = 167–90|chapter = Institutionalised Islamophobia and the 'Prevent' agenda: 'winning hearts and minds' or welfare as surveillance and control?}}</ref>

===Public opinion===
[[File:02015-10-02 Der anti-islamische Protest in Polen.JPG|thumb|Anti-Islam rally in [[Poland]] in 2015]]

The extent of negative attitudes towards Muslims varies across different parts of Europe. Polls in Germany<ref>{{Cite news|date=2016-05-12|title=Almost two-thirds of Germans think Islam doesn't 'belong' to their country: poll|language=en|work=[[Reuters]]|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-islam-poll-idUSKCN0Y31ZE|access-date=2021-09-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Elizabeth Schumacher|date=August 16, 2018|title=Germans tolerant of LGBT neighbors, but not Muslim ones|url=https://www.dw.com/en/germans-tolerant-of-lgbt-neighbors-but-not-muslim-ones/a-45078938|website=Deutsche Welle|language=en-GB}}</ref> and the Czech Republic<ref>{{cite web|last=[[Jan Čulík]]|date=February 9, 2017|title=Why is the Czech Republic So Hostile to Muslims and Refugees?|url=https://www.europenowjournal.org/2017/02/09/why-is-the-czech-republic-so-hostile-to-muslims-and-refugees/|website=EuropeNow|language=en-US|publication-place=[[University of Glasgow]]}}</ref> (as well as South Korea)<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Rich|first1=Timothy S.|last2=Bison|first2=Kaitlyn|last3=Kozovic|first3=Aleksandra|date=June 17, 2021|title=Who is welcome? South Korean public opinion on North Koreans and other refugees|journal=Japanese Journal of Political Science|language=en|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|volume=22|issue=3|pages=117–129|doi=10.1017/S1468109921000116|issn=1468-1099|doi-access=free}}</ref> have suggested that most respondents do not welcome Muslim refugees in those countries.

A 2017 [[Chatham House]] poll of more than 10,000 people in 10 European countries had on average 55% agreeing that all further migration from [[Muslim world|Muslim-majority countries]] should be stopped, with 20% disagreeing and 25% offered no opinion. By country, majority opposition was found in Poland (71%), Austria (65%), Belgium (64%), Hungary (64%), France (61%), Greece (58%), Germany (53%), and Italy (51%).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chathamhouse.org/2017/02/what-do-europeans-think-about-muslim-immigration|title=What Do Europeans Think About Muslim Immigration?|work=[[Chatham House]]|language=en}}</ref>
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In Canada, surveys have suggested that 55% of respondents think the problem of Islamophobia is "overblown" by politicians and media, 42% think discrimination against Muslims is 'mainly their fault', and 47% support banning headscarves in public.<ref>{{cite web|last=Azeezah Kanji|date=November 30, 2020|title=Islamophobia in Canada – Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief|url=https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Religion/Islamophobia-AntiMuslim/Civil%20Society%20or%20Individuals/Noor-ICLMG-ISSA.pdf|website=[[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights]]}}</ref>

In the United States, a 2011 [[YouGov]] poll found that 50% of respondents expressed an unfavourable view of Islam, compared to 23% expressing a favourable view.<ref>{{cite web|date=September 14, 2011|title=Islam Is Still A Disliked Religion To Many: 50% Are Unfavorable Towards It|url=https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2011/09/14/islam-still-disliked-religion-many-50-are-unfavora|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629111813/https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2011/09/14/islam-still-disliked-religion-many-50-are-unfavora|archive-date=2021-06-29|website=[[YouGov]]|language=en-us}}</ref> Another YouGov poll done in 2015 had 55% of respondents expressing an unfavourable view.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mona Chalabi|date=2015-12-08|title=How anti-Muslim are Americans? Data points to extent of Islamophobia|url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/08/muslims-us-islam-islamophobia-data-polls|website=[[The Guardian]]|language=en}}</ref> However, according to a 2018 [[Institute for Social Policy and Understanding]], 86% of American respondents said they wanted to "live in a country where no one is targeted for their religious identity", 83% told ISPU they supported "protecting the civil rights of American Muslims", 66% believed negative political rhetoric toward Muslims was harmful to U.S., and 65% agreed that Islamophobia produced discriminatory consequences for Muslims in America.<ref name=":0" />

The chart below displays collected data from the ISPU 2018 American Muslim Poll<ref name=":0" /> which surveyed six different faith populations in the United States. The statements featured in this chart were asked to participants who then responded on a scale from strongly agree to strongly disagree. The total percentage of those who answered agree and strongly agree are depicted as follows:

'''Question 1:''' "I want to live in a country where no one is targeted for their religious identity."

'''Question 2:''' "The negative things politicians say regarding Muslims is harmful to our country."

'''Question 3:''' "Most Muslims living in the United States are no more responsible for violence carried out by a Muslim than anyone else."

'''Question 4:''' "Most Muslims living in the United States are victims of discrimination because of their faith."

<br />{{ #invoke:Chart | bar chart
| group 1 = 91 : 95 : 85 : 88 : 78 : 88
| group 2 = 78 : 69 : 61 : 61 : 45 : 78
| group 3 = 74 : 68 : 70 : 64 : 66 : 76
| group 4 = 68 : 67 : 62 : 56 : 48 : 77
| colors = grey : pink : brown : teal
| group names = Question 1 (% Net agree) : Question 2 (% Net agree) : Question 3 (% Net Agree) : Question 4 (% Net agree)
| x legends = Muslim : Jewish : Catholic : Protestant : White Evangelical : Unaffiliated
}}

The table below represents the Islamophobia Index, also from the 2018 ISPU poll.<ref name=":0" /> This data displays an index of Islamophobia among faith populations in the United States.
{| class="wikitable"
|+ISPU Islamophobia Index<ref name=":0" />
!Most Muslims living in the United States... (% Net agree shown)
!Muslim
!Jewish
!Catholic
!Protestant
!White Evangelical
!Non-Affiliated
!General Public
|-
|Are more prone to violence
|18%
|15%
|12%
|13%
|23%
|8%
|13%
|-
|Discriminate against women
|12%
|23%
|29%
|30%
|36%
|18%
|26%
|-
|Are hostile to the United States
|12%
|13%
|9%
|14%
|23%
|8%
|12%
|-
|Are less civilized than other people
|8%
|6%
|4%
|6%
|10%
|1%
|6%
|-
|Are partially responsible for acts of violence carried out by other Muslims
|10%
|16%
|11%
|12%
|14%
|8%
|12%
|-
|Index (0 min- 100 max)
|17
|22
|22
|31
|40
|14
|24
|}

=== Internalized Islamophobia ===
ISPU also highlighted a particular trend in relation to anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S. – internalized Islamophobia among Muslim populations themselves. When asked if they felt most people want them to be ashamed of their faith identity, 30% of Muslims agreed (a higher percentage than any other faith group). When asked if they believed that their faith community was more prone to negative behavior than other faith communities, 30% of Muslims agreed, again, a higher percentage than other faith groups.<ref name=":0" />

==Trends==
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Islamophobia has become a topic of increasing sociological and political importance.{{sfn|Miles|Brown|2003|p=163}} According to Benn and Jawad, Islamophobia has increased since [[Ayatollah Khomeini]]'s [[The Satanic Verses controversy#Fatwa by Ayatollah Khomeini|1989 fatwa]] inciting Muslims to attempt to murder [[Salman Rushdie]], the author of ''[[The Satanic Verses]]'', and since the [[September 11 attacks]] in 2001.{{sfn|Benn|Jawad|2003|p=111}} [[Anthropologist]] [[Steven Vertovec]] writes that the purported growth in Islamophobia may be associated with increased Muslim presence in society and successes.<ref name="Vertovec">Steven Vertovec, "Islamophobia and Muslim Recognition in Britain"</ref>{{sfn|Haddad|2002|pp=32-33}} He suggests a [[Vicious circle|circular model]], where increased hostility towards Islam and Muslims results in governmental countermeasures such as institutional guidelines and changes to legislation, which itself may fuel further Islamophobia due to increased accommodation for Muslims in public life. Vertovec concludes: "As the public sphere shifts to provide a more prominent place for Muslims, Islamophobic tendencies may amplify."<ref name="Vertovec" />{{sfn|Haddad|2002|pp=32-33}}

[[File:02015-10-02 Der anti-islamische Protest in Polen (2015) - KORWiN.JPG|thumb|left|An anti-Islamic protest in Poland]]
Patel, Humphries, and Naik (1998) claim that "Islamophobia has always been present in Western countries and cultures. In the last two decades, it has become accentuated, explicit and extreme."<ref>Naina Patel, Beth Humphries and Don Naik, "The 3 Rs in social work; Religion,'race' and racism in Europe"</ref>{{sfn|Williams|Soydan|Johnson|1998|pp=197-8}} However, Vertovec states that some have observed that Islamophobia has not necessarily escalated in the past decades, but that there has been increased public scrutiny of it.<ref name="Vertovec" />{{sfn|Haddad|2002|pp=32-33}} According to Abduljalil Sajid, one of the members of the Runnymede Trust's Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, "Islamophobias" have existed in varying strains throughout history, with each version possessing its own distinct features as well as similarities or adaptations from others.<ref>{{cite web |title=Islamophobia: A new word for an old fear |url=http://www.wcrp.be/articles/Sajid9-11-04.htm |author=Imam Abduljalil Sajid |access-date=17 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930121111/http://www.wcrp.be/articles/Sajid9-11-04.htm |archive-date=30 September 2007 }}</ref>

In 2005 [[Ziauddin Sardar]], an [[Islamic scholar]], wrote in the ''New Statesman'' that Islamophobia is a widespread European phenomenon.<ref name=Sardar>[http://www.newstatesman.com/node/152128 "The next holocaust"], ''New Statesman'', 5 December 2005.</ref> He noted that each country has anti-Muslim political figures, citing [[Jean-Marie Le Pen]] in France; [[Pim Fortuyn]] in the Netherlands; and Philippe van der Sande of [[Vlaams Blok]], a [[Flemish people|Flemish]] nationalist party in Belgium. Sardar argued that Europe is "post-colonial, but ambivalent". Minorities are regarded as acceptable as an underclass of menial workers, but if they want to be upwardly mobile anti-Muslim prejudice rises to the surface. Wolfram Richter, professor of economics at [[Technical University of Dortmund]], told Sardar: "I am afraid we have not learned from our history. My main fear is that [[Holocaust|what we did to Jews]] we may now do to Muslims. The next holocaust would be against Muslims."<ref name=Sardar/> Similar fears, as noted by [[Kenan Malik]] in his book ''From Fatwa to Jihad'', had been previously expressed in the UK by Muslim philosopher [[Shabbir Akhtar]] in 1989, and Massoud Shadjareh, chair of the [[Islamic Human Rights Commission]] in 2000. In 2006 [[Salma Yaqoob]], a [[Respect Party]] Councillor, claimed that Muslims in Britain were "subject to attacks reminiscent of the gathering storm of anti-Semitism in the first decades of the last century."<ref name=malik131-2>Malik, Kenan. ''From Fatwa to Jihad''. Atlantic Books, London (2009): pp. 131–32.</ref> Malik, a senior visiting fellow in the Department of Political, International and Policy Studies at the [[University of Surrey]], has described these claims of a brewing holocaust as "hysterical to the point of delusion"; whereas Jews in Hitler's Germany were given the official designation of ''[[Untermenschen]]'', and were subject to escalating legislation which diminished and ultimately removed their rights as citizens, Malik noted that in cases where "Muslims are singled out in Britain, it is often for privileged treatment" such as the 2005 legislation banning "incitement to religious hatred", the special funding Muslim organizations and bodies receive from local and national government, the special provisions made by workplaces, school and leisure centres for Muslims, and even suggestions by the Archbishop of Canterbury [[Rowan Williams]] and the former Lord Chief Justice, [[Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers|Lord Phillips]], that [[sharia]] law should be introduced into Britain. The fact is, wrote Malik, that such well-respected public figures as Akhtar, Shadjareh and Yaqoob need "a history lesson about the real Holocaust reveals how warped the Muslim grievance culture has become."<ref name=malik132>Malik (2009): p. 132</ref>

[[File:Ground Zero Mosque Protesters 11.jpg|thumb|A protester opposing the [[Park51]] project carries an anti-sharia sign.]]
[[File:ARUNPATHAK5.JPG|thumb|[[Hindutva|Hindu nationalist]] politician [[Arun Pathak]] organised a celebration in Varanasi to commemorate the [[Demolition of Babri Masjid|1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid mosque]].]]
In 2006 [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] reported that "public views of Islam are one casualty of the post-September 11, 2001 conflict: Nearly six in 10 Americans think the religion is prone to [[violent extremism]], nearly half regard it unfavourably, and a remarkable one in four admits to prejudicial feelings against Muslims and Arabs alike." They also report that 27 percent of Americans admit feelings of prejudice against Muslims.<ref name=ABCMarch8>{{Cite news |last = Cohen |first = Jon |date = 2006-03-08 |title = Poll: Americans Skeptical of Islam and Arabs |publisher = [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |url = https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=1700599 |access-date = 2023-01-02}}</ref> Gallup polls in 2006 found that 40 percent of Americans admit to prejudice against Muslims, and 39 percent believe Muslims should carry special identification.<ref>[https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Story?id=2413473&page=2 "Islamophobia Felt 5 Years after 9/11"], ''Good Morning America'', 9 September 2006.</ref> These trends have only worsened with the use of Islamophobia as a campaign tactic during the 2008 American presidential election (with several Republican politicians and pundits, including Donald Trump, asserting that Democratic candidate Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim), during the 2010 mid-term elections (during which a proposed Islamic community center was dubbed the "Ground Zero Mosque"<ref>{{cite book|last=Corbett|first=Rosemary R.|title=Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, and the Ground Zero Mosque Controversy|year=2016|publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=9781503600812}}</ref>), and the 2016 presidential election, during which Republican nominee Donald Trump proposed banning the entrance into the country of all Muslims. Associate Professor [[Deepa Kumar]] writes that "Islamophobia is about politics rather than religion per se"<ref name=Kumarbook>{{cite book|last=Kumar|first=Kumar|title=Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire|year=2012|publisher=Haymarket Books|isbn=978-1608462117|page=6}}</ref> and that modern-day demonization of Arabs and Muslims by US politicians and others is racist and Islamophobic, and employed in support of what she describes as an unjust war. About the public impact of this rhetoric, she says that "One of the consequences of the relentless attacks on Islam and Muslims by politicians and the media is that Islamophobic sentiment is on the rise." She also chides some "people on the left" for using the same "Islamophobic logic as the Bush regime".<ref name="Fighting Islamophobia">{{Cite web |last = Kumar |first = Deepa |author-link = Deepa Kumar |date = 2006-04-03 |title=Fighting Islamophobia: A Response to Critics |url = https://mronline.org/2006/04/03/fighting-islamophobia-a-response-to-critics/ |access-date = 2023-01-02}}</ref> In this regard, Kumar confirms the assertions of [[Stephen Sheehi]], who "conceptualises Islamophobia as an ideological formation within the context of the American empire. Doing so "allows us to remove it from the hands of 'culture' or from the myth of a single creator or progenitor, whether it be a person, organisation or community." An ideological formation, in this telling, is a constellation of networks that produce, proliferate, benefit from, and traffic in Islamophobic discourses."<ref>{{Cite web|last=InpaperMagazine|first=From|date=2012-07-08|title=COVER STORY: Islamophobia: an ideological formation|url=https://www.dawn.com/2012/07/08/cover-story-islamophobia-an-ideological-formation/|access-date=2023-01-02|website=DAWN.COM|language=en}}</ref>

The writer and scholar on religion [[Reza Aslan]] has said that "Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims&nbsp;– not excuse it, but expect it".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Freedman|first=Samuel G.|date=2012-08-10|title=If the Sikh Temple Had Been a Mosque|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/us/if-the-sikh-temple-had-been-a-muslim-mosque-on-religion.html|access-date=2023-01-02|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

A January 2010 [[British Social Attitudes Survey]] found that the British public "is far more likely to hold negative views of Muslims than of any other religious group," with "just one in four" feeling "positively about Islam", and a "majority of the country would be concerned if a mosque was built in their area, while only 15 per cent expressed similar qualms about the opening of a church."<ref>{{Cite news|title=Britain divided by Islam, survey finds|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=11 January 2010|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6965276/Britain-divided-by-Islam-survey-finds.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114211350/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6965276/Britain-divided-by-Islam-survey-finds.html|archive-date=14 January 2010|access-date=4 April 2010 | location=London}}</ref>

A 2016 report by [[Council on American–Islamic Relations|CAIR]] and [[University of California, Berkeley]]'s Center for Race and Gender said that groups promoting islamophobia in the US had access to US$206 million between 2008 and 2013. The author of the report said that "The hate that these groups are funding and inciting is having real consequences like attacks on mosques all over the country and new laws discriminating against Muslims in America."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/20/islamophobia-funding-cair-berkeley-report |title=The Guardian: Funding Islamophobia: $206m went to promoting 'hatred' of American Muslims |last1=Kazem |first1=Halima|date=20 June 2016 |website=The Guardian |access-date=24 June 2016 }}</ref>

In the United States, religious discrimination against Muslims has become a significant issue of concern. In 2018, The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding found that out of the groups studied, Muslims are the most likely faith community to experience religious discrimination, the data having been that way since 2015. Despite 61% of Muslims reporting experiencing religious discrimination at some level and 62% reporting that most Americans held negative stereotypes about their community, &nbsp;23% reported that their faith made them feel "out of place in the world".<ref name=":0" /> There are intersections with racial identity and gender identity, with 73% of Arabs surveyed being more likely to experience religious discrimination, and Muslim women (75%) and youth (75%) being the most likely to report experiencing racial discrimination. The study also found that, although, "most Muslims (86%) express pride in their faith identity, they are the most likely group studied to agree that others want them to feel shame for that identity (30% of Muslims vs. 12% of Jews, 16% of non-affiliated, and 4–6% of Christian groups)."<ref name=":0" />

A 2021 survey affiliated with [[Newcastle University]] found that 83% of Muslims in Scotland said they experienced Islamophobia such as verbal or physical attacks. 75% of them said Islamophobia is a regular or everyday issue in Scottish society and 78% believed it was getting worse.<ref>{{cite web|last=Douglas Barrie|date=June 29, 2021|title=Islamophobia in Scotland on the rise as four-fifths of Muslims report verbal and physical attacks|url=https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/islamophobia-in-scotland-on-the-rise-as-four-fifths-of-muslims-report-verbal-and-physical-attacks/ar-AALzqfv|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210702075300/https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/islamophobia-in-scotland-on-the-rise-as-four-fifths-of-muslims-report-verbal-and-physical-attacks/ar-AALzqfv%23comments|archive-date=July 2, 2021|website=[[Microsoft News]]|publisher=[[Edinburgh Evening News]]}}</ref>

===Anti-Islamic hate crimes data in the United States===
[[File:Ground Zero Marine Protest Muslim Bomb.jpg|thumb|A mannequin symbolizing a Muslim in a [[keffiyeh]], strapped to a "Made in the USA" bomb display at a protest of [[Park51]] in [[New York City]]]]
[[File:Anti-Muslim protestors (26713859273) crop.jpg|thumb|A protest in Cincinnati, Ohio]]
[[File:Iranian Revolution anniversary 2017 21.jpg|thumb|[[Protests against Executive Order 13769]] in Tehran, [[Iran]], 10 February 2017]]

Data on types of hate crimes have been collected by the U.S. [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] since 1992, to carry out the dictates of the 1990 [[Hate Crime Statistics Act]]. Hate crime offenses include crimes against persons (such as assaults) and against property (such as [[arson]]), and are classified by various race-based, religion-based, and other motivations.

The data show that recorded anti-Islamic hate crimes in the United States jumped dramatically in 2001. Anti-Islamic hate crimes then subsided, but continued at a significantly higher pace than in pre-2001 years. The step up is in contrast to decreases in total hate crimes and to the [[Crime rates in the United States|decline in overall crime in the U.S.]] since the 1990s.

Specifically, the FBI's annual hate crimes statistics reports from 1996 to 2013 document average numbers of anti-Islamic offenses at 31 per year before 2001, then a leap to 546 in 2001 (the year of [[9-11]] attacks), and averaging 159 per since. Among those offenses are anti-Islamic arson incidents which have a similar pattern: arson incidents averaged 0.4 per year pre-2001, jumped to 18 in 2001, and averaged 1.5 annually since.<ref name="fbiData">The FBI reports anti-Islamic [[hate crimes]] directed against persons or property its annual reports indexed here [https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/ucr-publications#Hate]. Data reported here are from the FBI Hate Crime reports of [https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2013/tables/4tabledatadecpdf/table_4_offenses_offense_type_by_bias_motivation_2013.xls 2013], [https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2012/tables-and-data-declarations/4tabledatadecpdf/table_4_offenses_offense_type_by_bias_motivation_2012.xls 2012], [https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2011/tables/table-4 2011], [https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/tables/table-4-offenses-offense-type-by-bias-motivation-2010.xls 2010], [https://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2009/data/table_04.html 2009], [https://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2008/data/table_04.html 2008], [https://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2007/table_04.htm 2007], [https://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2006/table4.html 2006], [https://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2005/table4.htm 2005], [https://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2004/hctable4.htm 2004], [https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2003/hatecrime03.pdf 2003], [https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2002/hatecrime02.pdf 2002], [https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2001/hatecrime01.pdf 2001], [https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2000/hatecrime00.pdf 2000], [https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/1999/hatecrime99.pdf 1999], [https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/1998/hatecrime98.pdf 1998], [https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/1997/hatecrime97.pdf 1997], and [https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/1996/hatecrime96.pdf 1996]. Totals and averages reported here are derived as calculations from the FBI data.</ref>

Year-by-year anti-Islamic hate crimes, all hate crimes, and arson subtotals are as follows:
{|
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0f0;"
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0f0;"|
| colspan="2"|'''Anti-Islamic hate crimes'''
| colspan="2"|'''All hate crimes'''
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| Year||Arson offenses||Total offenses||Arson offenses||Total offenses
|-
| 1996||0||33||75||10,706
|-
| 1997||1||31||60||9,861
|-
| 1998||0||22||50||9,235
|-
| 1999||1||34||48||9,301
|-
| 2000||0||33||52||9,430
|- style="background:Gainsboro;"
| 2001||18||546||90||11,451
|-
| 2002||0||170||38||8,832
|-
| 2003||2||155||34||8,715
|-
| 2004||2||193||44||9,035
|-
| 2005||0||146||39||8,380
|-
| 2006||0||191||41||9,080
|-
| 2007||0||133||40||9,006
|-
| 2008||5||123||53||9,168
|-
| 2009||1||128||41||7,789
|-
| 2010||1||186||42||7,699
|-
| 2011||2||175||42||7,254
|-
| 2012||4||149||38||6,718
|-
| 2013||1||165||36||6,933
|-
| ||||||||
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| Total||38||2,613||863||158,593
|- style="background:Gainsboro;"
| Average||2.1||145.2||47.9||8810.7
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| ||||||||
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| 1996–2000 avg||.40||30.6||57.0||9,707
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| 2001||18||546||90||11,451
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| 2002–2013 avg||1.50||159.5||40.7||8,217
|}
In contrast, the overall numbers of arson and total offenses declined from pre-2001 to post-2001.

===Anti-Islamic hate crimes in Europe===
There have also been reports of hate crimes targeting Muslims across Europe. These incidents have increased after terrorist attacks by extremist groups such as ISIL.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-34995431|title=Anti-Islam hate crimes triple in London after Paris attacks|work=BBC News|date=4 December 2015}}</ref> [[Far-right politics|Far-right]] and [[Right-wing populism|right-wing populist]] political parties and organizations have also been accused of fueling fear and hatred towards Muslims.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-protests-germany-idUSKCN0VF0P4|title=Anti-Islam movement PEGIDA stages protests across Europe|date=6 February 2017|newspaper=Reuters}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/world/europe/marine-le-pens-anti-islam-message-gains-influence-in-france.html|title=Marine Le Pen's Anti-Islam Message Gains Influence in France|first=Adam|last=Nossiter|newspaper=The New York Times|date=17 November 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/germanys-afd-adopts-anti-islam-stance-at-party-conference-1462120609|title=Germany's AfD Adopts Anti-Islam Stance at Party Conference|first=Ruth|last=Bender|date=1 May 2016|newspaper=Wall Street Journal}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/poland-populist-government-far-right-extremism/|title=Poland's populist government let far-right extremism explode into mainstream|first=Tim|last=Hume|date=9 May 2017|website=news.vice.com}}</ref> Hate crimes such as arson and physical violence have been attempted or have occurred in Norway,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thelocal.no/20160520/woman-attempted-to-set-fire-to-oslo-mosque|title=Woman attempted to set fire to Oslo mosque|date=20 May 2016}}</ref> Poland,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/kasia-narkowicz-konrad-pedziwiatr/why-are-polish-people-so-wrong-about-muslims-in|title=Why are Polish people so wrong about Muslims in their country?|date=13 January 2017|publisher=openDemocracy|access-date=10 May 2017|archive-date=26 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426124815/https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/kasia-narkowicz-konrad-pedziwiatr/why-are-polish-people-so-wrong-about-muslims-in}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.islamophobiaeurope.com/reports/2015/en/EIR_2015_POLAND.pdf|title=European Islamophobia Report|date=2015|publisher=SETA}}</ref> Sweden,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30658482|title=Sweden protest after three mosque fires in one week|work=BBC News|date=2 January 2015}}</ref> France,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/27/fears-of-anti-muslim-backlash-as-police-investigate-possible-ars/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/27/fears-of-anti-muslim-backlash-as-police-investigate-possible-ars/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Fears of anti-Muslim backlash as police investigate possible arson attack on French mosque|first1=David|last1=Chazan|first2=Lexi|last2=Finnigan|date=27 July 2016|newspaper=The Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Diallo |first=Rokhaya |date=2025-05-13 |title=A worshipper is murdered in a French mosque. How can this be 'just another crime'? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/13/worshipper-murdered-french-mosque-politicians-crime-islamophobia |access-date=2025-05-13 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Spain,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1282879|title=Spanish hooligans held for assault on hijab-wearing pregnant Muslim woman|date=8 September 2016}}</ref> Denmark,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://cphpost.dk/news/muslim-school-in-denmark-vandalised-with-anti-islam-graffiti.html|title=Muslim School in Denmark Vandalised with Anti-Islam Graffiti|newspaper=The Copenhagen Post|access-date=27 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904233005/http://cphpost.dk/news/muslim-school-in-denmark-vandalised-with-anti-islam-graffiti.html|archive-date=4 September 2019}}</ref> Germany<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article194786317/Bremen-Nach-Messerangriff-in-Strassenbahn-nimmt-Polizei-Mann-fest.html|title=Bremen: Nach Messerangriff in Straßenbahn nimmt Polizei Mann fest|date=5 June 2019|newspaper=Die Welt}}</ref> and Great Britain.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.merkur.de/politik/london-anti-terror-ermittlungen-nach-toedlichem-zwischenfall-zr-8412371.html|title=Anschlag mit Lieferwagen auf Londoner Muslime|date=19 June 2017|website=www.merkur.de}}</ref> Politicians have also made anti-Muslim comments when discussing the [[European migrant crisis]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/9/4/hungarian-pm-we-dont-want-more-muslims|title=Hungarian PM: We don't want more Muslims|website=www.aljazeera.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/21/the-next-e-u-president-says-islam-has-no-place-in-his-country/|title=Slovakia's leader said Islam has 'no place' in his country. Now he's taking a leadership role in the E.U.|first=Ishaan|last=Tharoor|website=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/02/poles-dont-want-immigrants-they-dont-understand-them-dont-like-them|title='Poles don't want immigrants. They don't understand them, don't like them'|first=Adam|last=Leszczyński|date=2 July 2015|newspaper=The Guardian }}</ref>

According to [[Yvonne Haddad]]: The Islamophobia Industry in America is "driven by neocon stars: Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer, David Yerushalmi, Glenn Beck, Pamela Gellner, Paul Wolfowitz, David Horowitz, and Frank Gaffney as well as native informers Walid Shoebat, Walid Phares, Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ibn Warraq, Brigitte Gabriel, Tawfik Hamid, and Zuhdi Jasser. They have been prolific, producing and re-circulating false or exaggerated information about Islam and Muslims in order to gain lucrative speaking engagements and increase their influence among neocons in government."<ref>{{Cite journal |last1 = Haddad |first1 = Yvonne |author-link1 = Yvonne Haddad |last2= Harb |first2 = Nazir Nader |date=June 2014|title=Post-9/11: Making Islam an American Religion |journal = Religions |volume = 5 |issue=2 |pages = 477–501 |doi = 10.3390/rel5020477 |issn = 2077-1444 |doi-access = free }}</ref>

===Research on Islamophobia and its correlates===
[[File:Estimated Muslim population Vs Negative attitudes towards Muslims.svg|thumb|upright=1.5|According to data by the [[Pew Research Center]] elaborated by VoxEurop, in European Union countries the negative attitude towards Muslims is inversely proportional to actual presence.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ricci |first1=Alexander Damiano |title=Negative attitude towards Muslims inversely proportional to actual presence |url=https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/eng/News/Data-news/Negative-attitude-towards-Muslims-inversely-proportional-to-actual-presence |access-date=4 March 2019 |work=VoxEurop/EDJNet |date=11 February 2019}}</ref>]]
Various studies have been conducted to investigate Islamophobia and its correlates among majority populations and among [[Muslim]] minorities themselves. To start with, an experimental study showed that anti-Muslim attitudes may be stronger than more general [[xenophobic]] attitudes.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Spruyt | first1 = B. | last2 = Elchardus | first2 = M. | year = 2012 | title = Are anti-Muslim feelings more widespread than anti-foreigner feelings? Evidence from two split-sample experiments | doi = 10.1177/1468796812449707 | journal = Ethnicities | volume = 12| issue = 6| pages = 800–20| s2cid = 145497111 | url = https://biblio.vub.ac.be/vubirfiles/68137725/Spruyt_Elchardus_ETN_2012.pdf }}</ref> Moreover, studies indicate that anti-Muslim prejudice among majority populations is primarily explained by the perception of Muslims as a cultural threat, rather than as a threat towards the respective nation's economy.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = González | first1 = K. V. | last2 = Verkuyten | first2 = M. | last3 = Weesie | first3 = J. | last4 = Poppe | first4 = E. | year = 2008 | title = Prejudice Towards Muslims in The Netherlands: Testing Integrated Threat Theory | doi = 10.1348/014466608x284443| journal = The British Journal of Social Psychology | volume = 47 | issue = 4| pages = 667–85 | pmid = 18284782 | url = https://pure.rug.nl/ws/files/2706988/VelascoGonzalezK-Prejudice-2008.pdf | hdl = 11370/1faf663e-15b0-4391-aac2-b3a56b417887 | s2cid = 39911409 | hdl-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Savelkoul | first1 = M. | last2 = Scheepers | first2 = P. | last3 = Tolsma | first3 = J. | last4 = Hagendoorn | first4 = L. | year = 2010 | title = Anti-Muslim attitudes in the Netherlands: Tests of contradictory hypotheses derived from ethnic competition theory and intergroup contact theory | doi = 10.1093/esr/jcq035 | journal = European Sociological Review | volume = 27 | issue = 6| pages = 741–58 | hdl = 2066/99505 | hdl-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Schlueter | first1 = E. | last2 = Scheepers | first2 = P. | year = 2010 | title = The relationship between outgroup size and anti-outgroup attitudes: A theoretical synthesis and empirical test of group threat- and intergroup contact theory | doi = 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2009.07.006 | journal = Social Science Research | volume = 39 | issue = 2| pages = 285–95 | url = https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/en/publications/the-relationship-between-outgroup-size-and-antioutgroup-attitudes(a16d7bfe-0b28-4542-b8b1-2db75a3714e9).html | hdl = 11370/a16d7bfe-0b28-4542-b8b1-2db75a3714e9 | s2cid = 131765316 | hdl-access = free }}</ref>

Studies focusing on the experience of Islamophobia among Muslims have shown that the experience of [[religious discrimination]] is associated with lower national identification and higher religious identification.<ref name=kunst2012a>{{cite journal | last1 = Kunst | first1 = J. R. | last2 = Tajamal | first2 = H. | last3 = Sam | first3 = D. L. | last4 = Ulleberg | first4 = P. | year = 2012 | title = Coping with Islamophobia: The effects of religious stigma on Muslim minorities' identity formation | doi = 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2011.12.014 | journal = International Journal of Intercultural Relations | volume = 36 | issue = 4| pages = 518–32 | url = https://zenodo.org/record/812012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Verkuyten | first1 = M. | last2 = Yildiz | first2 = A. A. | year = 2007 | title = National (dis)identification and ethnic and religious identity: A study among Turkish-Dutch Muslims | doi = 10.1177/0146167207304276 | pmid = 17933739 | journal = Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin | volume = 33 | issue = 10| pages = 1448–62 | s2cid = 24997994 | url = https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/en/publications/national-disidentification-and-ethnic-and-religious-identity(7a25d4ce-7574-47ac-aac9-ebed396dc934).html | hdl = 11370/7a25d4ce-7574-47ac-aac9-ebed396dc934 | hdl-access = free }}</ref> In other words, religious discrimination seems to lead Muslims to increase their identification with their religion and to decrease their identification with their nation of residence. Some studies further indicate that societal Islamophobia negatively influences Muslim minorities' health.<ref name=kunst2012b/><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Johnston | first1 = D. | last2 = Lordan | first2 = G. | year = 2011 | title = Discrimination makes me sick! An examination of the discrimination–health relationship | doi = 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2011.12.002 | pmid = 22366167 | journal = Journal of Health Economics | volume = 31 | issue = 1| pages = 99–111 }}</ref> One of the studies showed that the perception of an Islamophobic society is associated with more [[psychological problem]]s, such as [[Depression (mood)|depression]] and [[Neuroticism|nervousness]], regardless whether the respective individual had personally experienced religious [[discrimination]].<ref name=kunst2012b/> As the authors of the study suggest, [[anti-discrimination law]]s may therefore be insufficient to fully protect Muslim minorities from an environment which is hostile towards their religious group.

[[Farid Hafez]] and Enes Bayrakli publish an annual [[European Islamophobia Report]] since 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.islamophobiaeurope.com/|title=European Islamophobia}}</ref> The European Islamophobie Report aims to enable policymakers as well as the public to discuss the issue of Islamophobia with the help of qualitative data. It is the first report to cover a wide range of Eastern European countries like Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, and Latvia. Farid Hafez is also editor of the German-English [[Islamophobia Studies Yearbook]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jahrbuch-islamophobie.de/|title=Jahrbuch für Islamophobieforschung|first=Farid|last=Hafez|publisher=Islamophobieforschung|access-date=28 July 2023|archive-date=18 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518234202/https://jahrbuch-islamophobie.de/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Regional trends===
====Anti-Muslim sentiment in Europe====
{{see also|Eurabia conspiracy theory}}
Muslim immigration into Europe has led some critics to label Islam incompatible with secular Western society.<ref>Pieper, Oliver. [https://www.dw.com/en/in-germany-discrimination-is-on-the-rise/a-72772311 In Germany, discrimination is on the rise]. [[DW News]]. Retrieved on 11 June 2025</ref><ref name=autogenerated3>{{Cite book| title=Multiculturalism, Muslims and Citizenship: A European Approach | url=https://archive.org/details/multiculturalism00modo | url-access=limited | author=Tariq Modood | publisher=Routledge | edition=1st | date=6 April 2006 | isbn=978-0-415-35515-5 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/multiculturalism00modo/page/n17 3], 29, 46}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last =Kilpatrick | first =William | title =The Politically Incorrect Guide to Jihad | publisher =Regnery | date =2016 | pages =256 | isbn =978-1621575771 }}</ref> This criticism has been partly influenced by a stance against [[multiculturalism]] advocated by recent philosophers, closely linked to the heritage of [[New Philosophers]], including the likes of [[Pascal Bruckner]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pascal Bruckner: Enlightenment fundamentalism or racism of the anti-racists? (24/01/2007) - signandsight |url=http://www.signandsight.com/features/1146.html |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=www.signandsight.com}}</ref><ref>Pascal Bruckner – A reply to [[Ian Buruma]] and Timothy Garton Ash: "At the heart of the issue is the fact that in certain countries Islam is becoming Europe's second religion. As such, its adherents are entitled to freedom of religion, to decent locations and to all of our respect. On the condition, that is, that they themselves respect the rules of our republican, secular culture, and that they do not demand a status of extraterritoriality that is denied other religions, or claim special rights and prerogatives"</ref><ref>Pascal Bruckner – A reply to Ian Buruma and Timothy Garton Ash "It's so true that many English, Dutch and German politicians, shocked by the excesses that the wearing of the Islamic veil has given way to, now envisage similar legislation curbing religious symbols in public space. The separation of the spiritual and corporeal domains must be strictly maintained, and belief must confine itself to the private realm."</ref><ref name=mnali>{{cite news | title = Extremism flourished as UK lost Christianity | author-link = Michael Nazir-Ali | first = Michael | last = Nazir-Ali | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/06/nislam206.xml | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080110080819/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/06/nislam206.xml | url-status = dead | archive-date = 10 January 2008 | newspaper = [[The Sunday Telegraph]] | date = 6 January 2008 | location=London}}</ref> Jocelyne Cesari, in her study of discrimination against Muslims in Europe,<ref name="CesariStudy">{{cite web |last=Cesari |first=Jocelyne |date=2006-06-01 |title=Muslims In Western Europe After 9/11: Why the term Islamophobia is more a predicament than an explanation |url=http://www.euro-islam.info/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/securitization_and_religious_divides_in_europe.pdf |website=Euro-Islam Info}}</ref> finds that anti-Islamic sentiment may be difficult to separate from other drivers of discrimination. Because Muslims are mainly from immigrant backgrounds and the largest group of immigrants in many Western European countries, [[xenophobia]] overlaps with Islamophobia, and a person may have one, the other, or both. So, for example, some people who have a negative perception of and attitude toward Muslims may also show this toward non-Muslim immigrants, either as a whole or certain group (such as, for example, Eastern Europeans, sub-Saharan Africans, or Roma), whereas others would not.

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The [[European Network Against Racism]] (ENAR) reports that Islamophobic crimes are on the increase in France, England and Wales. In Sweden crimes with an Islamophobic motive increased by 69% from 2009 to 2013.<ref>{{cite web |last=Draper |first=Lucy |date=6 May 2015 |title=New report exposes huge rise in racist crime in Europe |url=https://www.newsweek.com/new-report-exposes-huge-rise-racist-crime-europe-326929 |website=Newsweek}}</ref>

An increase of Islamophobia in Russia follows the growing influence of the strongly conservative sect of [[Wahhabism]], according to Nikolai Sintsov of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee.<ref name=rbth130625>{{cite news|url=http://rbth.ru/news/2013/06/25/wahhabism_expansion_in_russia_leads_to_growth_of_islamophobia_-_national_27468.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823060520/http://rbth.ru/news/2013/06/25/wahhabism_expansion_in_russia_leads_to_growth_of_islamophobia_-_national_27468.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 August 2013|title=Wahhabism expansion in Russia leads to growth of Islamophobia – National Anti-Terrorist Committee|date=25 June 2013|newspaper=Rossiyskaya Gazeta}}</ref>

Various translations of the Qur'an have been banned by the Russian government for promoting extremism and [[Supremacism#Islamic|Muslim supremacy]].<ref name="guardian131008">{{cite news |author=Kalder |first=Daniel |date=8 October 2013 |title=Russian court bans Qur'an translation |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/oct/08/russian-court-bans-quran-translation |newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{cite news|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2013/1009/Russia-blacklists-translation-of-the-Quran|title=Russia blacklists translation of the Quran|date=9 Oct 2013|newspaper=Christian Science Monitor|author=Husna Haq}}</ref> Akhmed Yarlikapov, an expert on Islam, said the Bible too could be banned just as easily for identical motives.<ref name=":4">{{cite news|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2013/1009/Russia-blacklists-translation-of-the-Quran|title=Russia blacklists translation of the Quran|date=9 Oct 2013|newspaper=Christian Science Monitor|author=Husna Haq}}</ref>

Anti-Muslim rhetoric is on the rise in Georgia.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21587829-georgia-appears-have-moved-backwards-under-bidzina-ivanishvili-no-change-better|title=No change for the better: Georgia appears to have moved backwards under Bidzina Ivanishvili|date=12 Oct 2013|newspaper=The Economist}}</ref> In Greece, Islamophobia accompanies anti-immigrant sentiment, as immigrants are now 15% of the country's population and 90% of the EU's illegal entries are through Greece.<ref name="gm110103">{{cite news|title=Rising tide of Islamophobia engulfs Athens|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/rising-tide-of-islamophobia-engulfs-athens/article560119/|date=3 Jan 2011|newspaper=Globe and Mail|location=Toronto}}</ref> In France Islamophobia is tied, in part, to the nation's long-standing tradition of secularism.<ref name="local130215">{{cite news|url=http://www.thelocal.fr/20130215/islamophobia-has-become-trivialised-in-france|title=Islamophobia has been trivialized in France|date=15 February 2013|newspaper=The Local|author=Ben McPartland}}</ref> With the popularization of the Bulgarian nationalist party [[Attack (political party)|ATAKA]], Islamophobia in Bulgaria also showed an increase. The party itself participated in the 2011 [[Banya Bashi Mosque clashes]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Сблъсъци пред джамията "Баня баши" в София - Портал ЕВРОПА |url=http://old.europe.bg/htmls/page.php?category=5&id=36063 |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=old.europe.bg}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Penchev |first=Pencho |title=The opportunistic national-populism of the Bulgarian political party Ataka in a historical perspective |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278675533 |journal=L'Europe a Contre-Pied: Ideologie Populiste et Extremisme de Droite en Europe Centrale et Orientale |pages=75–89}}</ref>

====Anti-Muslim sentiment elsewhere====
[[File:Rohingya displaced Muslims 010.jpg|thumb|250px|left|[[Rohingya people|Rohingya Muslim]] refugees fleeing violence in Buddhist-majority [[Myanmar]] in October 2017]]
A report from Australia has found that "except for Anglicans, all Christian groups have Islamophobia scores higher than the national average" and that "among the followers of non-Christian religious affiliations, [[Buddhists]] and [[Hindus]] [also] have significantly higher Islamophobia scores."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.unisa.edu.au/Global/EASS/MnM/Publications/Islamophobia_report.pdf |title=Islamophobia, social distance and fear of terrorism in Australia: a preliminary report |access-date=28 July 2023 |archive-date=4 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004072601/http://www.unisa.edu.au/Global/EASS/MnM/Publications/Islamophobia_report.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Following the [[2015 San Bernardino attack|San Bernardino attack]] in 2015, [[Donald Trump]], then a candidate for President, proposed "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States, until we can figure out what the hell is going on".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-12-08 |title=Donald Trump: ban all Muslims entering US |url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/07/donald-trump-ban-all-muslims-entering-us-san-bernardino-shooting |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> Throughout the campaign, Trump repeatedly described Islam and Muslim immigrants and refugees as a threat to the [[Western world|West]], and condemned then-current President [[Barack Obama]] for not referring to [[Islamic State]] militants as "Islamic terrorists" or "radical Muslims", accusing Obama of cowardice in the face of radical Islam and claiming that Obama had "founded ISIS" through his foreign policy.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Obama lashes out at Trump, says using the phrase 'radical Islam' is 'not a strategy' |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/14/obama-lashes-out-on-loose-talk-on-terrorism-islam/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Donald Trump: President Barack Obama 'Is the Founder of ISIS' |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-president-barack-obama-founder-isis/story?id=41286869 |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=ABC News |language=en}}</ref> Trump's rhetoric was condemned by his opponent, [[Hillary Clinton]], as well as numerous Muslim advocacy groups and activists, and became a focal issue in the [[2016 United States presidential election]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Spangler |first=Todd |title=Clinton, Trump spar over Islamophobia, Syrian refugees |url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/10/09/clinton-trump-spar-over-islamophobia-syrian-refugees/91835278/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=Detroit Free Press |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2016, the [[South Thailand insurgency|South Thailand Insurgency]], having caused more than 6,500 deaths and purportedly fuelled in part by the Thai military's harsh tactics,<ref>{{cite web|last=Joshua Kurlantzick|date=October 20, 2016|title=A New Approach to Thailand's Insurgency|url=https://www.cfr.org/blog/new-approach-thailands-insurgency|access-date=2021-09-14|website=[[Council on Foreign Relations]]|language=en}}</ref> was reported to be increasing Islamophobia in the country.<ref>{{Citation|last=Andre|first=Virginie|title=Thai Cyber-Actors: Evidence of an Islamophobic Effect|date=2016|work=Fear of Muslims? International Perspectives on Islamophobia|pages=111–130|series=Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies|publication-place=[[Deakin University]]|publisher=[[Springer International Publishing]]|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-29698-2_8|isbn=978-3-319-29698-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=May 2016|title=Islamophobia on the rise in Thailand's North|url=https://kbr.id/english/05-2016/islamophobia_on_the_rise_in_thailand_s_north/81308.html|access-date=2021-09-14|website=[[KBR (news agency)]]}}</ref> The [[Mindanao Conflict|Mindanao conflict]] in the Philippines has also fuelled discrimination against Muslims by some Christian Filipinos.<ref>{{cite web|last=Amina Rasul|date=2007|title=Radicalisation of Muslims in the Philippines|url=https://www.kas.de/documents/252038/253252/7_dokument_dok_pdf_12802_1.pdf/5ae94b8d-f7f3-4e5a-6102-6867dbb7795e?version=1.0&t=1539663806495|website=[[Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Zempi|first1=Irene|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LceHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT516|title=The Routledge International Handbook of Islamophobia|last2=Awan|first2=Imran|date=2019-02-11|publisher=[[Routledge]]|isbn=978-1-351-13553-5|location=United Kingdom|page=516|language=en}}</ref>

The [[2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka]] was suggested to have been a possible trigger for the [[2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings|2019 Easter bombings]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Srinivasan|first=Meera|date=2019-04-27|title=Sri Lanka Easter blasts: 'Anti-Muslim riots a possible trigger'|language=en-IN|work=[[The Hindu]]|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/sri-lanka-easter-blasts-anti-muslim-riots-a-possible-trigger/article26960071.ece|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> Muslims in the country have reportedly faced increased harassment after the bombings, with some [[Sinhala Buddhist nationalism|Sinhala Buddhist]] groups calling for boycotts of Muslim businesses and trade.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kadirgamar|first=Niyanthini|date=2019-08-01|title=The perils of being a woman and a Muslim in Sri Lanka|language=en-IN|work=[[The Hindu]]|url=https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-perils-of-being-a-woman-and-a-muslim/article28775384.ece|access-date=2021-09-14|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

In July 2019, the UN ambassadors from 22 nations, including Canada, Germany and France, signed a joint letter to the [[United Nations Human Rights Council|UNHRC]] condemning China's mistreatment of the [[Uyghurs]] as well as its mistreatment of other [[Islam in China|Muslim]] minority groups, urging the Chinese government to close the [[Xinjiang internment camps]],<ref>{{cite web |title=More than 20 ambassadors condemn China's treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/11/more-than-20-ambassadors-condemn-chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-in-xinjiang |work=The Guardian|date=11 July 2019}}</ref> though ambassadors from 53 others, not including China, rejected said allegations.<ref>{{cite web|date=29 October 2019|title=Joint Statement on Xinjiang at Third Committee|url=http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/23328878/belarus-joint-statement-cerd-chair-oct-29.pdf|access-date=13 August 2020|website=unmeetings.org|archive-date=11 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211011191511/http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/23328878/belarus-joint-statement-cerd-chair-oct-29.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> According to a 2020 report by the [[Australian Strategic Policy Institute]], since 2017, Chinese authorities have destroyed or damaged 16,000 mosques in Xinjiang – 65% of the region's total.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Davidson|first=Helen|date=2020-09-25|title=Thousands of Xinjiang mosques destroyed or damaged, report finds|language=en-GB|work=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/25/thousands-of-xinjiang-mosques-destroyed-damaged-china-report-finds|access-date=2020-09-26|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Skopeliti|first=Clea|date=25 September 2020|title=China: Nearly two-thirds of Xinjiang mosques damaged or demolished, new report shows|work=[[The Independent]]|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/xinjiang-mosques-destroyed-damaged-china-uighurs-b597919.html|access-date=26 September 2020}}</ref>

Emigrants from nearly every predominantly Muslim country have immigrated to Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/home/index.cfm|title=Census of Canada: Census of Population, Census of Agriculture|access-date=12 June 2023|archive-date=27 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227125053/https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/english/census01/home/index.cfm|url-status=dead}}</ref> According to a 2013 poll, 54% of Canadians had an unfavourable view of Islam, which was higher than for any other religion (Hinduism, Sikhism etc.).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.angusreidglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Canadians-view-non-Christian-religions-with-uncertainty-dislike.pdf|title=Canadian Public Opinion Poll|date=2 October 2013|website=angusreidglobal.com|access-date=10 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042415/http://angusreidglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Canadians-view-non-Christian-religions-with-uncertainty-dislike.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[2020 Delhi riots]], which left more than 50 dead and hundreds injured,<ref>{{cite news |title=Delhi riots: Violence that killed 53 in Indian capital 'was anti-Muslim pogrom', says top expert |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/world/delhi-riots-pogrom-violence-deaths-modi-bjp-india-police-a9384891.html |work=The Independent |date=7 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=For Jews, the New Delhi riots have a painfully familiar ring |url=https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/for-jews-the-new-delhi-riots-have-a-painfully-familiar-ring/ |work=The Times of Israel |date=11 March 2020}}</ref> were triggered by protests against a [[Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019|citizenship law]] seen by many critics as anti-Muslim and part of Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]]'s [[Hindu nationalist]] agenda.<ref>{{cite news |title=Anti-Muslim violence in Delhi serves Modi well |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/26/violence-delhi-modi-project-bjp-citizenship-law |work=The Guardian |date=26 February 2020}}</ref> In [[Myanmar]] the [[969 Movement]] has been accused of events such as the [[2012 Rakhine State riots]].

==Countering Islamophobia==
[[File:Prejudice against Roma, Trans and Muslim people (EU, 2015).svg|thumb|upright=1.78|According to a survey conducted by the [[European Commission]] in 2015 13% of the respondents would be completely uncomfortable about working with a Muslim person ({{legend-inline|#fdbf6f|orange}}), compared with 17% with a [[transgender]] or [[transsexual]] person ({{legend-inline|#b2df8a|green}}) and 20% with a [[Romani people|Romani]] person ({{legend-inline|#cab2d6|violet}}).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bona |first1=Marzia |title=How widespread is anti-Roma prejudice? |url=https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/eng/News/Data-news/How-widespread-is-anti-Roma-prejudice |access-date=29 August 2018 |work=OBC Transeuropa/EDJNet |date=2 August 2018}}</ref>]]

===International===
The [[Organisation of Islamic Cooperation]], in its 5th report to Islamophobia Observatory of 2012, found an "institutionalization and legitimization of the phenomenon of Islamophobia" in the West over the previous five years.<ref name=Arabnews121113>{{cite news|title=OIC warns of exploiting Islamophobia phenomenon|url=http://www.arabnews.com/oic-warns-exploiting-islamophobia-phenomenon|access-date=18 October 2013|newspaper=Arab News|date=13 November 2012}}</ref>

On 16 March 2022, [[United Nations|UN]] designated March 15 as [[International Day To Combat Islamophobia]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=UN Designated March 15, Combat Day To Islamophobia |work=Dawn News |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1680128}}</ref>

===European Union===
The largest project monitoring Islamophobia was undertaken following 9/11 by the EU watchdog, [[European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia]] (EUMC). Their May 2002 report "Summary report on Islamophobia in the EU after 11 September 2001", written by [[Chris Allen (academic)|Chris Allen]] and Jorgen S. Nielsen of the [[University of Birmingham]], was based on 75 reports&nbsp; – 15 from each EU member nation.<ref name="EUMCNews">{{Cite news |title=EUMC presents reports on Discrimination and Islamophobia in the EU |publisher=European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia media release |url=http://www.eumc.europa.eu/eumc/index.php?fuseaction=content.dsp_cat_content&catid=43d8bc25bc89d&contentid=4582ddc822d41 |date=18 December 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080131230905/http://www.eumc.europa.eu/eumc/index.php?fuseaction=content.dsp_cat_content&catid=43d8bc25bc89d&contentid=4582ddc822d41 |archive-date=31 January 2008 }}</ref><ref name=EUMC>Allen, Chris and Nielsen, Jorgen S. [http://www.raxen.eumc.eu.int/1/webmill.php?id=32813&ditem=3101&lin=detail "Summary report on Islamophobia in the EU after 11 September 2001"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071112213546/http://www.raxen.eumc.eu.int/1/webmill.php?id=32813&ditem=3101&lin=detail |date=12 November 2007 }}, EUMC, May 2002.</ref> The report highlighted the regularity with which ordinary Muslims became targets for abusive and sometimes violent retaliatory attacks after 9/11. Despite localized differences within each member nation, the recurrence of attacks on recognizable and visible traits of Islam and Muslims was the report's most significant finding. Incidents consisted of verbal abuse, blaming all Muslims for [[List of terrorist incidents|terrorism]], forcibly removing women's [[hijab]]s, spitting on Muslims, calling children "[[Osama bin Laden|Osama]]", and random assaults. A number of Muslims were hospitalized and in one instance paralyzed.<ref name=EUMC/> The report also discussed the portrayal of Muslims in the media. Inherent negativity, stereotypical images, fantastical representations, and exaggerated caricatures were all identified. The report concluded that "a greater receptivity towards anti-Muslim and other xenophobic ideas and sentiments has, and may well continue, to become more tolerated."<ref name=EUMC/> The [[European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia]] has since released a number of publications related to Islamophobia, including ''The Fight against Antisemitism and Islamophobia: Bringing Communities together (European Round Tables Meetings)'' (2003) and ''Muslims in the European Union: Discrimination and Islamophobia'' (2006).<ref>[http://fra.europa.eu/fra/index.php?fuseaction=content.dsp_cat_content&catid=1 EUMC website&nbsp;– Publications] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223010504/http://fra.europa.eu/fra/index.php?fuseaction=content.dsp_cat_content&catid=1 |date=23 December 2007 }}. Retrieved 17 November 2007.</ref>

In 2016, the European Islamophobia Report (EIR) presented the "European Islamophobia Report 2015"<ref>{{cite journal|title=Reports – European Islamophobia|journal=European Islamophobia Reports EIR|date=3 May 2016|issue=2015|url=http://www.islamophobiaeurope.com/reports/2015-reports/|access-date=18 May 2016|language=en|format=.html/.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=EIR_2015.pdf|journal=European Islamophobia Reports EIR|date=3 May 2016|issue=2015|url=http://www.islamophobiaeurope.com/reports/2015/en/EIR_2015.pdf|access-date=18 May 2016|language=en}}</ref> at [[European Parliament]] which analyzes the "trends in the spread of Islamophobia" in 25 European states in 2015. The EIR defines Islamophobia as anti-Muslim racism. While not every criticism of Muslims or Islam is necessarily Islamophobic, anti-Muslim sentiments expressed through the dominant group scapegoating and excluding Muslims for the sake of power is.<ref name=eirquote>{{cite web|title=Definition – About European Islamophobia Report (EIR)|url=http://www.islamophobiaeurope.com/about-us/|website=©2016 European Islamophobia|publisher=European Parliament|access-date=12 May 2016|language=en|format=.html|date=3 May 2016|quote=When talking about Islamophobia, we mean anti-Muslim racism. As Anti-Semitism Studies has shown, the etymological components of a word do not necessarily point to its complete meaning, nor how it is used. Such is also the case with Islamophobia Studies. Islamophobia has become a well known term used in academia as much as in the public sphere. Criticism of Muslims or of the Islamic religion is not necessarily Islamophobic. Islamophobia is about a dominant group of people aiming at seizing, stabilizing and widening their power by means of defining a scapegoat – real or invented – and excluding this scapegoat from the resources/rights/definition of a constructed 'we'. Islamophobia operates by constructing a static 'Muslim' identity, which is attributed in negative terms and generalized for all Muslims. At the same time, Islamophobic images are fluid and vary in different contexts, because Islamophobia tells us more about the Islamophobe than it tells us about the Muslims/Islam.}}</ref>

On 26 September 2018, the [[European Parliament]] in [[Brussels]] launched the "Counter-Islamophobia Toolkit" (CIK), with the goal of combatting the growing Islamophobia across the [[European Union|EU]] and to be distributed to national governments and other policy makers, civil society and the media. Based on the most comprehensive research in Europe, it examines patterns of Islamophobia and effective strategies against it in eight member states. It lists ten dominant narratives and ten effective counter-narratives.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cik.leeds.ac.uk/events/cik-toolkit-launch-european-parliament-brussels/|website=University of Leeds|title=CIK Toolkit Launch – European Parliament, Brussels|date=26 September 2018|access-date=1 March 2019|archive-date=1 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301140006/https://cik.leeds.ac.uk/events/cik-toolkit-launch-european-parliament-brussels/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=1 March 2019|url=http://www.equineteurope.org/Counter-Islamophobia-Kit|title=Counter-Islamophobia Kit|website=Equinet European Network of Equality Bodies|date=4 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Counter-Islamophobia kit:briefing paper and toolkit of counter-narratives to Islamophobia|first1=Ian|last1=Law|first2=Easat-Daas|last2=Amina|first3=S.|last3=Sayyid|access-date=1 March 2019|website=University of Leeds|date=September 2018|url=https://cik.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2018/09/2018.09.17-Job-44240.01-CIK-Final-Booklet.pdf|archive-date=8 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808183822/https://cik.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2018/09/2018.09.17-Job-44240.01-CIK-Final-Booklet.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

One of the authors of the CIK, Amina Easat-Daas, says that Muslim women are disproportionately affected by Islamophobia, based on both the "threat to the west" and "victims of...Islamic sexism" narratives. The approach taken in the CIK is a four-step one: defining the misinformed narratives based on flawed logic; documenting them; deconstructing these ideas to expose the flaws; and finally, reconstruction of mainstream ideas about Islam and Muslims, one closer to reality. The dominant ideas circulating in popular culture should reflect the diverse everyday experiences of Muslims and their faith.<ref>{{cite news|work=The Conversation|title=How to tackle Islamophobia – the best strategies from around Europe|url=https://theconversation.com/how-to-tackle-islamophobia-the-best-strategies-from-around-europe-106092|date=21 February 2019|access-date=1 March 2019|first=Easat-Daas |last=Amina}}</ref>

====Sweden====
Anne Sophie Roald stated that Islamophobia was recognized as a form of intolerance alongside [[xenophobia]] and [[antisemitism]] at the "Stockholm International Forum on Combating Intolerance",<ref>{{Cite book|first=Anne Sophie |last=Roald|title=New Muslims in the European Context: The Experience of Scandinavian Converts |url=https://archive.org/details/newmuslimseurope00roal |url-access=limited |page=[https://archive.org/details/newmuslimseurope00roal/page/n67 53] |publisher=Brill|year=2004|isbn=978-90-04-13679-3}}</ref> held in January 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fasena.de/download/rechts/SIFCI.pdf|title=Fasena.de}}</ref> The conference adopted a declaration to combat "genocide, ethnic cleansing, racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia and xenophobia, and to combat all forms of racial discrimination and intolerance related to it."<ref name="humanrights.gov.se">{{cite web|url=http://www.humanrights.gov.se/stockholmforum/2001/conference_2001.html |publisher=Chancellery of the Government of Sweden |title=Conference Two: Combating Intolerance |access-date=19 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923211418/http://www.humanrights.gov.se/stockholmforum/2001/conference_2001.html |archive-date=23 September 2010 }}</ref>

In 2014 Integrationsverket (the Swedish National Integration Board) defined Islamophobia as "racism and discrimination expressed towards Muslims."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ehle|first=David|date=2014-02-23|title=Terminologi – islamofobi|url=https://motargument.se/2014/02/23/terminologi-islamofobi/|access-date=2023-01-02|website=Motargument|language=sv-SE|quote=rasistiska och diskriminerande uttryck gentemot muslimer}}</ref>

==Tropes==
{{incomplete list|date=December 2024}}
{{see also|Islamophobic trope|Antisemitic trope}}

=== 72 virgins ===
{{anchor|72 Virgins|72 virgins}}

"72 virgins" is a reference to the heavenly angels in Islamic depictions of heaven, specifically a fairly obscure [[Hadith]] describing them as dark-eyed virgin brides waiting for fallen soldiers in heaven.<!-- use common English terms that represent the same concepts, put the Arabic or alternate translations in brackets if you add them --><ref>{{cite news | last1= Rose | first1= Hannah | last2= Matlach | first2= Paula-Charlotte | title= Narratives of Hate: Post-7 October Antisemitism and Anti-Muslim Hate on Social Media | url= https://www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Narratives-of-hate_Post-7-Oct.pdf }}</ref>

* ''[[Israeli public diplomacy in the Gaza war#72 Virgins|72 Virgins – Uncensored]]'' – The most notable use of this trope was an Israeli militarily [[psychological warfare]] unit's covert [[Telegram channel]] named "[[Israeli public diplomacy in the Gaza war#72 Virgins|72 Virgins – Uncensored]]". The channel shared graphic images and videos of Palestinians taken in [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]].<ref>{{cite news | author1=Yaniv Kubovich |title=Graphic Videos and Incitement: How the IDF Is Misleading Israelis on Telegram |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2024-02-04/ty-article/.premium/israeli-army-its-admits-staff-was-behind-graphic-gaza-telegram-channel/0000018d-70b4-dd6e-a98d-f4b6a9c00000 |work=Haaretz |date=12 December 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240403001239/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2024-02-04/ty-article/.premium/israeli-army-its-admits-staff-was-behind-graphic-gaza-telegram-channel/0000018d-70b4-dd6e-a98d-f4b6a9c00000 |archive-date=2024-04-03 |quote=The IDF unit responsible for psychological warfare operations operates a Telegram channel called '72 Virgins – Uncensored,' which targets local audiences with 'exclusive content from the Gaza Strip'}}</ref>
* ''[[Seventy-Two Virgins]]'' – was the title of a novel by UK [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] politician [[Boris Johnson]].<ref>{{Cite web| url= https://literaryreview.co.uk/crime-round-up-oct-2004 | title= Crime Round Up Oct 2004 | website= [[Literary Review]] | access-date= 17 July 2019 | archive-date= 17 July 2019 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190717204540/https://literaryreview.co.uk/crime-round-up-oct-2004 | url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/International/Boris-Johnsons-novel-Seventy-Two-Virgins-A-glimpse-into-his-inner-world-596646|title=Boris Johnson's Novel, Seventy-Two Virgins: A Glimpse into his Inner World|first1=Hannah|last1=Brown|access-date=2019-09-11|date=2019-07-05|work=[[The Jerusalem Post]]|archive-date=9 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809165727/https://www.jpost.com/International/Boris-Johnsons-novel-Seventy-Two-Virgins-A-glimpse-into-his-inner-world-596646|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Criticism==
Although the term "Islamophobia" is widely recognized and used,{{sfn|Poole|2003|p=218|loc=''The Runnymede Trust has been successful in that the term Islamophobia is now widely recognized and used, though many right-wing commentators reject its existence or argue that it is justified. However, now becoming a catch-all label for any harassment involving Muslims, it should not be considered unproblematic''}} its use, construction, and the concept itself, have been criticized.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Moten |first=Abdul Rashid |author-link=Abdul Rashid Moten |editor-last=Shahin |editor-first=Emad El-Din |editor-link=Emad Shahin |encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics |title=Islamophobia |volume=1 |year=2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-973935-6 |pages=618–620}}</ref> Additionally, the exact meaning of Islamophobia continues to be debated amongst academics and policymakers alike. The term has proven problematic and is viewed by some as an obstacle to constructive [[criticism of Islam]]. Its detractors fear that it can be applied to any critique of Islamic practices and beliefs, suggesting terms such as "anti-Muslim" instead.<ref name="A Dictionary of Sociology">{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=A Dictionary of Sociology|edition=4th
|editor=John Scott|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2014|title=Islamophobia|isbn=978-0-19-968358-1|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199683581.001.0001/acref-9780199683581-e-2536|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

[[Onkar Ghate]] of the [[Ayn Rand Institute]] calls islamophobia ”an anti-concept that has been deliberately originated to make discussion of the issue impossible” and a ”package deal meant to silence … meant to destroy the ability to think” and that this ”package deal” puts together irrational discriminatory behavior towards muslims (which needs to be denounced) with thoughtful, rational criticism against islam.<ref>[https://ari.aynrand.org/charlie-hebdo-the-west-and-the-need-to-ridicule-religion-video/  Charlie Hebdo, the West and the Need to Ridicule Religion] (the discussion about islamophobia starts at around 0:18:38)</ref> [[Elan Journo]], also of the Ayn Rand Institute, agrees and writes ”[b]y packaging together legitimate criticism with racism and bigotry, the term “Islamophobia” works to smear — and thereby marginalize, discourage, and silence — any substantive critique of the jihadist movement.”<ref>[https://ari.aynrand.org/what-the-critics-of-islamophobia-get-wrong/ What Critics of ”Islamophobia Get Wrong], Ayn Rand Institute, 2016-10-25</ref>

The classification of "closed" and "open" views set out in the ''Runnymede report'' has been criticized as an oversimplification of a complex issue by scholars like [[Chris Allen (academic)|Chris Allen]], [[Fred Halliday]], and [[Kenan Malik]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|author=Chris Allen|title= Islamophobia |encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World|editor=John L. Esposito|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|year=2009|isbn= 978-0-19-530513-5 |url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195305135.001.0001/acref-9780195305135-e-1178|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Professor Mohammad H. Tamdgidi of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, has generally endorsed the definition of Islamophobia as defined by the Runnymede Trust's ''Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All''. However, he notes that the report's list of "open" views of Islam itself presents "an inadvertent definitional framework for Islamophilia": that is, it "falls in the trap of regarding Islam monolithically, in turn as being characterized by one or another trait, and does not adequately express the complex heterogeneity of a historical phenomenon whose contradictory interpretations, traditions, and sociopolitical trends have been shaped and has in turn been shaped, as in the case of any world tradition, by other world-historical forces."<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Tamdgidi | first1 = Mohammad H. | year = 2012 | title = Beyond Islamophobia and Islamophilia as Western Epistemic Racisms: Revisiting Runnymede Trust's Definition in a World-History Context | url = http://crg.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/Tamdgidi.pdf | journal = Islamophobia Studies Journal | volume = 1 | issue = 1 | page = 76 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131029212606/http://crg.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/Tamdgidi.pdf | archive-date = 29 October 2013 }}</ref>

Although a range of Western commentators have expressed objections to the term "Islamophobia", in his paper "A Measure of Islamophobia", British academic [[Salman Sayyid]] (2014) argues that these criticisms are a form of etymological fundamentalism and echo earlier comments on racism and antisemitism. Racism and antisemitism were also accused of blocking free speech, of being conceptually weak and too nebulous for practical purposes.<ref>Sayyid (2014) 'A measure of Islamophobia' Islamophobia Studies Journal, Vol 2. No. 1, pp. 10–25.</ref>

The French philosopher [[Pascal Bruckner]] calls the term "a clever invention because it amounts to making Islam a subject that one cannot touch without being accused of racism."<ref name="Bruckner">{{cite magazine |last1=Michael Walzer |author1-link=Michael Walzer |date=Winter 2015 |title=Islamism and the Left |url=https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/islamism-and-the-left |access-date=2 November 2015 |magazine=[[Dissent (American magazine)|Dissent]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bruckner |first=Pascal |date=2010-11-23 |title=L'invention de l'"islamophobie" |url=https://www.liberation.fr/societe/2010/11/23/l-invention-de-l-islamophobie_695512/ |website=Libération |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Lévy |first1=Elisabeth |last2=Mihaely |first2=Gil |date=2012-10-29 |title=Pascal Bruckner : L'islamophobie, ça n'existe pas ! |url=https://www.causeur.fr/pascal-bruckner-islamophobie-19758 |website=Causeur |language=fr-FR}}</ref>

The [[Organisation of Islamic Cooperation]] has been criticized for restricting [[freedom of speech]] and [[freedom of religion]] by describing [[apostasy]] and [[heresy]] as Islamophobia.<ref name="j971">{{cite book | last1=Marshall | first1=Paul | last2=Shea | first2=Nina | title=Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide | publisher=Oxford University Press | date=1 December 2011 | isbn=978-0-19-981226-4 | doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199812264.001.0001}}</ref>

The concept of Islamophobia as formulated by Runnymede was criticized by [[Fred Halliday]]. He writes that the target of hostility in the modern era is not Islam and its tenets as much as it is Muslims, suggesting that a more accurate term would be "Anti-Muslimism". He also states that strains and types of prejudice against Islam and Muslims vary across different nations and cultures, which is not recognized in the Runnymede analysis, as it was specifically about Muslims in Britain.<ref name="Aldridge1">{{Cite book |last=Aldridge |first=Alan |title=Religion in the Contemporary World: A Sociological Introduction |date=1 February 2000 |publisher=Polity Press |isbn=978-0-7456-2083-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/religionincontem0000aldr/page/138 138] |url=https://archive.org/details/religionincontem0000aldr/page/138 }}</ref> Poole responds that many Islamophobic discourses attack what they perceive to be Islam's tenets, while Miles and Brown write that Islamophobia is usually based upon negative stereotypes about Islam which are then translated into attacks on Muslims. They also argue that "the existence of different 'Islamophobias' does not invalidate the concept of Islamophobia any more than the existence of different racisms invalidates the concept of racism."{{sfn|Miles|Brown|2003|p=166}}{{sfn|Miles|Brown|2003|p=165}}{{sfn|Poole|2003|p=219}} In a 2011 paper in ''American Behavioral Scientist'', Erik Bleich stated "there is no widely accepted definition of Islamophobia that permits systematic comparative and causal analysis", and advances "indiscriminate negative attitudes or emotions directed at Islam or Muslims" as a possible solution to this issue.<ref name="Bleich">{{cite journal | last1 = Bleich | first1 = Erik | year = 2011 | title = What Is Islamophobia and How Much Is There? Theorizing and Measuring an Emerging Comparative Concept | journal = [[American Behavioral Scientist]] | volume = 55 | issue = 12| pages = 1581–1600 | doi=10.1177/0002764211409387| s2cid = 143679557 }}</ref>

In order to differentiate between prejudiced views of Islam and secularly motivated criticism of Islam, Roland Imhoff and Julia Recker formulated the concept "Islamoprejudice", which they subsequently operationalised in an experiment. The experiment showed that their definition provided a tool for accurate differentiation.<ref name=Imhoff>{{Cite journal |last1= Imhoff |first1= Roland |last2 = Recker |first2 = Julia |date = 2012-08-17 |title=Differentiating Islamophobia: Introducing a new scale to measure Islamoprejudice and Secular Islam Critique |url=https://www.academia.edu/545302 |journal = [[Political Psychology]] |publisher = [[International Society of Political Psychology]] |via = [[Wiley (publisher)|Wiley]] |publication-date = December 2012 |volume = 33 |issue = 6 |pages = 811–924 |doi = 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2012.00911.x}}</ref> Nevertheless, other researchers' experimental work indicates that, even when Westerners seem to make an effort to distinguish between criticizing (Muslim) ideas and values and respecting Muslims as persons, they still show prejudice and discrimination of Muslims—compared to non-Muslims—when these targets defend [[Illiberal democracy|illiberal]] causes.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1111/pops.12416|title = Western Anti-Muslim Prejudice: Value Conflict or Discrimination of Persons Too?| journal=Political Psychology| volume=39| issue=2| pages=281–301|year = 2018|last1 = Van Der Noll|first1 = Jolanda| last2=Saroglou| first2=Vassilis| last3=Latour| first3=David| last4=Dolezal| first4=Nathalie}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Islam}}
{{div col}}
* [[Al-Baqara 256]]
* [[Islamophobic trope]]
* [[Criticism of Islam]]
* [[Hijabophobia]]
* [[International Day To Combat Islamophobia]]
** [[Islamophobia in the media]]
** [[Islamophobia Watch]]
* {{slink|Supremacism #Islamic|}}
* [[Minority stress]]
* [[Nativism (politics)]]
* [[Nativism (politics) in the United States]]
* [[Peace in Islam]]
* [[Persecution of Muslims]]
* [[Religious intolerance]]
* [[Religious persecution]]
* [[Religious abuse]]
* [[Religious violence]]
* [[Religious war]]
**[[September 11 attacks|9/11]]
**[[7 July 2005 London bombings|7/7 Attacks]]
* [[World Hijab Day]]
* [[Weaponization of antisemitism]]
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==References==
===Notes===
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===Citations===
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===Sources===
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* {{Cite book |last1=Benn |first1=Tansin |last2=Jawad |first2=H. A. |name-list-style=amp|title=Muslim Women in the United Kingdom and Beyond: Experiences and Images |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d2sFAQAAIAAJ |year=2003 |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |page=178 |isbn=978-90-04-12581-0}}
* {{cite journal |last=Davison |first=Alan |title=Multiculturalism, Social Distance and "Islamophobia": Reflections on Anti-racism Research in Australia and Beyond |publisher=springer |pages=42–51 |ref=none |no-tracking=yes<!-- prevents error categorization --> |journal=Journal Society (59)|year=2022 |volume=59 |issue=1 |doi=10.1007/s12115-021-00641-4 |hdl=10453/151199 |s2cid=244581073 |hdl-access=free }}
* {{Cite book|last=Egorova |first=Y. |author2=Parfitt, T. |name-list-style=amp|title=Jews, Muslims, and Mass Media: Mediating the 'Other' |year=2003 |publisher=Routledge Curzon |location=London |isbn=978-0-415-31839-6}}
* {{Cite book |last=Haddad |first=Yvonne Yazbeck |author-link=Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad | title=Muslims in the West: From Sojourners to Citizens |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qdRx7qLF8KIC |year=2002 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |page=336 |isbn=978-0-19-514805-3}}
* {{Cite book |first1=Robert |last1=Miles |first2=Malcolm |last2=Brown |name-list-style=amp|title=Racism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q5xNQr0uiXUC |year=2003 |location=London, New York |publisher=[[Psychology Press]]|page=197 |isbn=9780415296779}}
* {{Cite encyclopedia |editor-last=Cashmore |editor-first=Ellis |last=Poole |first=E. |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies |article=Islamophobia |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-415-44714-0 |pages=215–19 |publisher=[[Routledge]]}}
* {{Cite book |last= Runnymede Trust |title=Islamophobia A Challenge For Us All - Report of the Runnymede Trust Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia |year=1997 |url= https://mcislamofobia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Islamophobia-a-challenge-for-us-all-without-cartoons-1.pdf|publisher=[[The Runnymede Trust]]|isbn= 0-902397-98-2}}
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==Further reading==
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* Ali, Wajahat; Clifton, Eli; Duss, Matthew; Fang, Lee; Keyes, Scott; and Shakir, Faiz (August 26, 2011) "[https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/religion/report/2011/08/26/10165/fear-inc/ Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America]". ''[[American Progress]]''. Accessed 24 February 2015.
* [[Chris Allen (academic)|Allen, Chris]] (2011). ''Islamophobia''. Ashgate Publishing Company.
* {{Cite book|last=Abbas|first= Tahir|title=Muslim Britain: Communities Under Pressure|year=2005|publisher=Zed|isbn=978-1-84277-449-6}}
* Duss, Matthew; Taeb; Yasmine; Gude, Ken; and Sofer, Ken (February 11, 2015) "[https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/religion/report/2015/02/11/106394/fear-inc-2-0/ Fear, Inc. 2.0: The Islamophobia Network's Efforts to Manufacture Hate in America]". ''[[American Progress]]''. Accessed 24 February 2015.
* {{Cite book|last=Gottschalk|first=P.|author2=Greenberg, G. |title=Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy|url=https://archive.org/details/islamophobiamaki0000gott|url-access=registration|year=2007|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield publishers |location=Lanham |isbn=978-0-7425-5286-9}}
* {{Cite book|last=Greaves|first=R.|title=Islam and the West Post 9/11|year=2004|publisher=Ashgate publishing Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-5005-8}}
* Itaoui, Rhonda (2016). "The Geography of Islamophobia in Sydney: mapping the spatial imaginaries of young Muslims", in ''[[Australian Geographer]]''. Vol 47:3, 261–79.
* Kaplan, Jeffrey (2006). "[https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317369882/chapters/10.4324%2F9781315671352-19 Islamophobia in America?: September 11 and Islamophobic Hate Crime] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612113144/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317369882/chapters/10.4324%2F9781315671352-19 |date=12 June 2018 }}", ''Terrorism and Political Violence'' (Routledge), '''18''':1, 1–33.
* Kincheloe, Joe L. and Steinberg, Shirley R. (2004). ''The Miseducation of the West: How the Schools and Media Distort Our Understanding of Islam''. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Press. (Arabic Edition, 2005).
* Kincheloe, Joe L. and Steinberg, Shirley R. (2010). ''Teaching Against Islamophobia''. New York: Peter Lang.
* Konrad, Felix (2011). [http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0159-2011020147 ''From the "Turkish Menace" to Exoticism and Orientalism: Islam as Antithesis of Europe (1453–1914)?''], [[European History Online]], Mainz: [[Institute of European History]]. Retrieved: 22 June 2011.
* Kundnani, Arun. (2014) ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=JsNNBAAAQBAJ The Muslims Are Coming! Islamaphobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror]'' (Verso; 2014) 327 pages
* Lajevardi, N. (2020). Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American Islamophobia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* {{cite book |title=Islamophobia and Racism in America |year=2017 |first=Erik |last=Love |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-1479838073}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Pynting |first1=Scott|last2=Mason|first2=Victoria|name-list-style=amp|year=2007|title=''The Resistible Rise of Islamophobia: Anti-Muslim Racism in the UK and Australia before 11 September 2001". ''Journal of Sociology |url=http://www.islamiccouncilwa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/poynting2007a-2.pdf |journal=The Australian Sociological Association |volume=43 |issue=1|pages=61–86|doi=10.1177/1440783307073935|s2cid=145065236}}
* {{Cite book|last=Quraishi|first=M.|title=Muslims and Crime: A Comparative Study |year=2005 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing|isbn=978-0-7546-4233-6}}
* {{Cite book|last=Ramadan |first=T.|title=Western Muslims and the Future of Islam |year=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-517111-2}}
* {{Cite book|last=Richardson|first=John E.|title=(Mis)representing Islam: the racism and rhetoric of British broadsheet newspapers|publisher=[[John Benjamins Publishing Company]]|year=2004|isbn=978-90-272-2699-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WanqiF2XULsC}}
* {{Cite book|last=Scott|first=John|title=A Dictionary of Sociology (4th ed.)|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2014|isbn=978-0-19-968358-1}}
* [[Stephen Sheehi|Sheehi, Stephen]] (2011). ''Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims''. Clarity Press.
* Shryock, Andrew, ed. (2010). ''[[Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend]]''. [[Indiana University Press]]. p.&nbsp;250. Essays on Islamophobia past and present; topics include the "neo-Orientalism" of three Muslim commentators today: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Reza Aslan, and [[Irshad Manji]].
* Silva, Derek (2017). "[https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/xd3g9/download?format=pdf The Othering of Muslims: Discourses of Radicalization in the New York Times, 1969–2014]", ''Sociological Forum'', '''32''':1, 138–161.
* Tausch, Arno with Bischof, Christian; Kastrun, Tomaz; and Mueller, Karl (2007). ''Against Islamophobia: Muslim Communities, Social-Exclusion and the Lisbon Process in Europe''. Hauppauge, N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers. {{ISBN|978-1-60021-535-3}}.
* Tausch, Arno with Bischof, Christian and Mueller, Karl (2008). ''Muslim Calvinism: Internal Security and the Lisbon Process in Europe.'' Purdue University Press. {{ISBN|978-905170995-7}}.
* Tausch, Arno (2007). ''Against Islamophobia: Quantitative Analyses of Global Terrorism, World Political Cycles and Center Periphery Structures''. Hauppauge, N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers. {{ISBN|978-1-60021-536-0}}.
* {{Cite book|last=van Driel|first=B.|title=Confronting Islamophobia In Educational Practice|year=2004|publisher=Trentham Books|isbn=978-1-85856-340-4}}
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==External links==
{{Sister project links}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111105101311/http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/islamophobia/islamophobia-studies-journal ''Islamophobia Studies Journal''] – Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project, UC Berkeley
* [http://www.islamophobiaeurope.com/reports/2015-reports/ ''Reports – European Islamophobia''] – European Islamophobia Reports EIR
* [http://www.islamophobiatoday.com/ ''Islamophobia Today'' newspaper] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922184915/http://www.islamophobiatoday.com/ |date=22 September 2021 }} – an Islamophobia news clearing house
* [https://www.academia.edu/24419416/UNDERSTANDING_and_COUNTERING_ISLAMOPHOBIA Sammy Aziz Rahmatti, ''Understanding and Countering Islamophobia'']
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