In American Muslim Poll: Amid Pandemic and Protest, the Islamophobia Index was recorded mere months before an election where the incumbent was widely seen as fomenting anti-Muslim sentiment as an electoral strategy, both with rhetoric and administration policies like the Muslim Ban. Most notable among our results is the consistent decline in Islamophobia among Jewish Americans from 22 in 2018 to 18 in 2019 to 16 in 2020.
2022
In the American Muslim Poll 2022: A Politics and Pandemic Status Report, for the fourth year, we measured the Islamophobia Index, a measure of the level of public endorsement of five negative stereotypes associated with Muslims in America. The general public scored 25 (on a scale of 0 to 100), on par with 27 in 2020. American Muslims scored 26 on the Islamophobia Index, higher than Jewish Americans who scored the lowest at 17.
As a mostly white American Muslim born in 97 I can say this is exactly what happened to me. I went through a (mercifully short) Islamophobic phase in late high school after being fed one too many stories by Western media of my people being senseless savages. It didn’t help that my relationship with that side of my family was always, shall we say, tenuous, and at that time sharply declining. Internalized racism is a hell of a drug, I had some pretty nasty self deprecating jokes. Which is ironic considering how much I hated and even fought people for shit they would say in grade school.