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Islamophobia Test

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Your Friend's Islamophobia Test Results Are:

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This makes your friend:

  • 3.12% less Islamophobic than the average person.
  • 21.9% more prone to unbiased criticism of Islam than the average person.
  • 43.85% more positive towards Islam as a religion than the average person.

Islamophobia measures prejudiced opinions about Muslims. People who are high on this scale are likely to be biased against Muslims; to perceive Muslims as threatening; and to hold right-of-center political views. Although Imhoff and Recker criticize the many imprecise ways that “Islamophobia” is used in contemporary debate, they nevertheless maintain that Islamophobia, as defined in this test, constitutes a form of bigotry that is at odds with Western values.

Unbiased Criticism measures opinions that are critical of problematic Islamic practices on a basis that is unrelated to prejudice. According to the researchers, such criticisms are unbiased, since someone who believes in enlightenment values and human rights would agree with them, no matter what religion they chided. Thus, according to Imhoff and Recker, one can be harsh in one's criticism of certain Islamic practices without being prejudiced against Muslims.

Islam-positivity: This dimension was added to Imhoff and Recker’s work by researchers Crane and Bano to ensure that the test does not come off as unduly negative towards Islam or Muslims. It measures the test taker’s degree of positive emotions, opinions, and perceptions about Islam in general. Furthermore, the inclusion of this dimension helps to further separate dislike of Islam as a religion from prejudice against Muslims as people.

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References

  • Crane, L. S., & Bano, S. (2016). Islamo-positivity items and revised English language version of SIPSCI measure (Scale of Islamoprejudice and Secular Critique of Islam). Open Science Framework.
  • Imhoff, R. & Recker, J. (2012). Differentiating Islamophobia: Introducing a New Scale to Measure Islamoprejudice and Secular Islam Critique. Political Psychology, Vol. 33, No. 6 (DECEMBER 2012), pp. 811-824.