A worldwide Muslim threat narrative came to frame British perceptions

Evidence

The worldwide Muslim threat that had already gained significant resonance in the West had now infested the body of Britain and its values, indeterminably and increasingly framing the lens through which Muslims and Islam were being seen. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 237 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Islamophobia is one of several challenges British Muslims confront. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 47; British press blame for radicalization shifted toward extremist Islam itself — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 640; Muslim population growth in Britain matched expected demography yet the press framed it alarmingly. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 209 (+22 more)

Related

• The Muslim threat was framed as infesting Britain’s body and values (similarity 0.96)
• Islamophobia is one of several challenges British Muslims confront. (similarity 0.87)
• Suspicion of Britain’s Muslims predates modern biological racism (similarity 0.86)
• Britain first recognized Muslims only through the lens of fundamentalism (similarity 0.84)
• Domesticating the Muslim threat made it feel closer and more dangerous (similarity 0.84)
• British press blame for radicalization shifted toward extremist Islam itself (similarity 0.84)
• Muslim population growth in Britain matched expected demography yet the press framed it alarmingly. (similarity 0.84)
• British Muslims were first publicly recognised through a fundamentalist lens. (similarity 0.84)
• UK integration discourse framed Muslims as demographic threats to national existence (similarity 0.83)
• Both Americans and Britons held Islam a perennial menace by its proselytizing and violence (similarity 0.83)
• Muslim self-identification and British misperception drove border conflicts (similarity 0.83)
• British press underrepresents Muslims and portrays them as exotic or aberrant (similarity 0.83)
• The Wahhabi threat was a category Britain could not stop thinking even beyond evidence. (similarity 0.82)
• Americans and Britons alike viewed Islam as inherently expansionist and violent. (similarity 0.81)
• Britons in India refashioned inherited Islamophobia to serve colonial governance needs (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The Muslim threat was framed as infesting Britain’s body and values #expands (0.95) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 237
• Although Britons in India differed from Americans because of the active (if exaggerated) threat to their political order, both shared a conviction regarding two alleged qualities of Islam that… #expands (0.90)
• British colonial ideology consolidated the essentialized idea of Islam as a homogeneous threat #expands (0.85)
• British census data on Muslim numbers amplified Anglo-American fears. #expands (0.80) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 90
• Resurgent Islam within European societies fuels the same fear in France as in Britain #exemplifies (0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 244