Anti-Muslim animus unites groups that were themselves former racist targets

Evidence

So great therefore was the need to demarcate themselves from Muslims, that those Sikh and Hindu groups found adequate justification to join forces with an overtly racist organisation that had in very recent history been targeting Sikh and Hindu communities on the basis of their skin colour rather more than their religion. So great was their unifying cause – the single, common denominator – that other contentious and previously oppositional factors were ignored or overlooked. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 464

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 210; Anti-Muslim sentiment spans opposing political groups, not just white conservatives; Islamophobia and anti-black racism share a kindred source and common targets. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 418 (+4 more)

Related

• Anti-Muslim discrimination should be fought through existing anti-racism frameworks (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-Muslim sentiment terminology mirrors the older, unresolved antisemitism debates about racism vs. religious prejudice. (similarity 0.82)
• Miles and Brown argue anti-Muslim phenomena fit existing racism and xenophobia theories (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-racist movements often fail to see anti-Muslim bigotry as racism (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-Muslim racism is analytically parallel to European antisemitism against Jews as Jews. (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim attitudes are distinct but overlapping targets of prejudice (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia and anti-black racism share a kindred source and common targets. (similarity 0.82)
• Identity politics structurally separates Muslim and Jewish anti-racism despite shared experience of denigration. (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups (similarity 0.81)
• Debates on antisemitism and Islamophobia have developed largely apart from race scholarship. (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism (similarity 0.81)
• Racism scholarship’s biologistic paradigms long excluded anti-Muslim discrimination as unclassifiable (similarity 0.80)
• Mainstream anti-Islamophobia defense framed bias as cultural misunderstanding, not racism (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Muslim rhetoric has been mainstreamed across right-left ideological divides in the US (similarity 0.80)
• Racisms combine across racialized groups rather than dividing cleanly by target (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups #expands (0.92) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 210
• Jewish anti-racism groups mobilized against Islamophobia after the Park51 controversy #exemplifies (0.85) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 715
• Identity politics structurally separates Muslim and Jewish anti-racism despite shared experience of denigration. #qualifies (0.82) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 715
• Islamophobia and anti-black racism share a kindred source and common targets. #exemplifies (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 418
• Anti-Muslim sentiment spans opposing political groups, not just white conservatives #qualifies (0.78)
• Anti-Muslim sentiment now spans the political spectrum from left to right #qualifies (0.78) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 476
• Four interconnected groups jointly project the Muslim-enemy image #expands (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 537