Unprecedented levels of Islamophobia and heightened anti-Muslim rhetoric are so rampant that some Muslims are internalizing and accepting problematic stereotypes about themselves, according to a newly released report by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding .

The study found that Muslims are more likely than members of other faiths to agree with the sentiment that their community is more prone to negative behavior than other people at 30 percent, compared with 13 percent of Jews and 12 percent of Catholics.

One of the most important and surprising findings we got in this study was the degree to which Muslims have themselves internalized negative stereotypes about their own community. That does underscore the power of the media and political rhetoric that day in and day out paints a narrative of Muslims in a certain way, that Muslims themselves are not immune to adopting that idea, said Dalia Mogahed, the ISPUs director of research.