However, there is also what I would describe as a strain of latent Islamophobia, dependent on a powerful, often tacit assumption that Islam and Muslim cultures are inferior to an evolved, secular Western model. … Therefore, in addition to looking at Islamophobia as a mode of prejudice that might be practiced by individuals or groups against other individuals or groups, we need also to remember the enabling context for such prejudice.

DEFINE: The author distinguishes individual prejudice from an 'enabling context' — a structural or systemic precondition that makes such prejudice possible and legitimate.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 42