A good-bad Muslim demarcation barred Islamophobia from becoming a political priority.
Evidence
The socio-political factors that continue to cast a long shadow over this period, combined with the political mechanisms that not only restricted and constrained but also demarcated on the basis of distinguishing ‘good’ from ‘bad’ Muslims through affording political legitimacy to particular groups, created an environment where Islamophobia was far from being a political priority and where Muslims could not meaningfully engage. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 497
Categorization
- XREF: The ‘good/bad Muslim’ demarcation is the material consequence of the definitional contest: those allowed to define the problem are precisely those premised to not name it as racism. — connects to: State demarcation of good versus bad Muslims blocked meaningful anti-Islamophobia work — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 502; The good Muslim bad Muslim binary paved the way for political Islamophobia — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 262; Perceiving Muslims as disloyal shifts the policy frame from anti-discrimination to securitization. (+2 more)
Related
- State demarcation of good versus bad Muslims blocked meaningful anti-Islamophobia work (similarity 0.88)
- Islamophobia is best understood and countered as a form of anti-Muslim racism. (similarity 0.83)
- Definitional choices about ‘Islamophobia’ are political acts with real consequences (similarity 0.83)
- Perceiving Muslims as disloyal shifts the policy frame from anti-discrimination to securitization. (similarity 0.81)
- The good versus bad Muslim label tracks support for US empire rather than facts. (similarity 0.81)
- Islamophilia sustains the same politics of fear it claims to oppose. (similarity 0.81)
- State engineering of Muslim representation differs from its handling of other minorities. (similarity 0.81)
- Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle (similarity 0.80)
- Four conceptual moves permit the de-racialization of Islamophobia (similarity 0.80)
- Runnymede’s 1997 Islamophobia framework is a liberal construct defining harm as unfounded hostility (similarity 0.80)
- Muslims were told anti-Muslim racism cannot exist because Muslims are not a race (similarity 0.80)
- Good and bad Muslim designations follow support for US empire (similarity 0.80)
- Islamophobia as a term originally means unfounded hostility toward Islam, not structural racism. (similarity 0.80)
- Islamophobia is an ideology sustaining negative meaning about Muslims. (similarity 0.80)
- Anti-Islamophobia must not become the sole analytical frame for studying Western Muslims (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- The good Muslim bad Muslim binary paved the way for political Islamophobia
#corroborates(0.95) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 262 - Islamophobia originates in ambiguous citizenship models, not in fear of Islam itself.
#expands(0.75) - Perceiving Muslims as disloyal shifts the policy frame from anti-discrimination to securitization.
#expands(0.72) - Anti-Muslim prejudice was deliberately deployed by elites at specific political moments.
#expands(0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 25