This private Islamophobia, unfolding on screen, was triggered by the structural Islamophobia made more expansive and explicit by the Bush administration, which spurred a second wave of private Islamophobia.

XREF: Recalls theories of how state discourse legitimizes and normalizes popular prejudice, echoing ideas in research on how institutional rhetoric drives individual attitudes.

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 291