Islamophobia seeps in through the cracks of daily life, through hints and rumors, newsfeeds and tweets, in journalists' articles and politicians' utterances. Because such statements have become more overt in their hostility to Islam in the past twenty or so years, they provide the background noise to much of contemporary life. Behind them lie the real injustices, whether the steady stream of anti-Muslim violent rhetoric and actions in Britain, the United States, and Europe or the running sores of Kashmir and Israel/Palestine in world affairs.

XREF: Connects to broader discussions of how prejudice operates through microaggressions and institutional discourse rather than overt acts alone.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 517