I've got an article on Comment is free which you can read
here. The article draws attention to a new experiment that claims to offer fresh evidence of Islamophobia, albeit with a twist: that our biases towards Muslims are in some instances unconscious. The author of the experiment attributes this to biased media portrayals of Muslims and has been deemed as the Turban Effect. In the article I argue that, while the experiment may reflect deep biases, it could also be argued that the participants in the experiment were acting rationally.
If you would like to read more about Demos' project on Muslim radicalisation in Europe and Canada, you can do so
here.
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