Anti-Islamophobia must not become the sole analytical frame for studying Western Muslims
Evidence
I have indicated that there is a danger that ‘anti-Islamophobia’ could go the same way as the earlier form of anti-racism, and some of the ways that this can be avoided – namely, to ensure that Islamophobia does not become the primary analytical frame for the study of Muslims in the west but that it is situated within a broader ‘struggle for recognition’ frame, a normative framework which prioritizes groups fighting negative outsider perceptions by giving normative and political weight to insider identifications in all their plurality. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 602
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels the reader’s reading purpose: this is the multiculturalism camp’s stake, in direct tension with the racialization turn and with reducing Muslim studies to Islamophobia. — connects to: Anti-Muslim discrimination should be fought through existing anti-racism frameworks — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 58; Fighting Islamophobia need not stifle legitimate criticism of Muslims — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 696; Anti-Islamophobia analysis is incomplete without normative argument about what counts as reasonable — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 594 (+1 more)
- QUESTION: The parallel drawn to 1970s-80s anti-racism and the erasure of ‘black’ subject identities is worth chasing — a claimed repeat of a historical analytical failure.
Broader Connections
- Anti-Islamophobia frameworks can reproduce the very homogenization they oppose
#expands(0.88) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 397 - Anti-Islamophobia analysis is incomplete without normative argument about what counts as reasonable
#expands(0.85) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 594 - Fighting Islamophobia need not stifle legitimate criticism of Muslims
#expands(0.82) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 696