Friday, September 16, 2022
Elder of Ziyon
The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding has released its 2022 survey on Muslims in America.
The findings on the specific questions that make up the definition of Islamophobia are even more interesting.
The survey shows that Jews are the one faith group that is most tolerant towards Muslims.
Even more than Muslims themselves!
The Discrimination and Islamophobia section of the survey shows that in their Islamophobia Index, which averages to responses for several questions about Muslims, Jews were by far the most tolerant - and Muslims looked at themselves in a worse light than the average American does.
17% of Jews were considered Islamophobic according to this index, while 25% of the general public did - and 26% of Muslims themselves.
While only 9% of Jews say Muslims are prone to violence, 24% of Muslims say that - the highest faith group to believe that by far and nearly triple that of the general public.
For the question of "Do you agree that most Muslims living in the United States are hostile to the United States," again the highest score went to Muslims themselves - 19% - compared to only 4% for Jews.
Nearly identical results came from the question of whether respondents agree that US Muslims are less civilized than other Americans.
Another result of the survey is that white Muslims are far more Islamophobic than Muslims of color - and it is getting worse.
ISPU tries to spin these results, saying that the Muslims who are self-hating have been brainwashed by mainstream Islamophobic tropes.
Endorsing negative stereotypes about one’s own community is referred to as internalized oppression, or internalized bigotry or racism in the case of a racial group. ... Some studies on internalized racism have surprisingly found that endorsing negative stereotypes about one’s own group is associated with a higher locus of control. This suggests that internalized prejudice may actually be a defense mechanism against the trauma of bigotry at the hands of the dominant group by agreeing with those in power but believing one has the choice (locus of control) to not be like those tropes.
That would make sense if the mainstream was indeed bigoted - one could expect a small percentage of the minority group to be influenced by the majority. But as theses result show, the majority isn't Islamophobic compared to Muslims themselves, which makes that theory nonsensical.
One other point: if a Muslim organization has no problem noting that over a quarter of US Muslims are Islamophobic by their definition, why is it considered so awful for Jews to point out that some Jews are antisemitic?
(h/t Adam Albilya)
