Anti-Muslim discrimination should be fought through existing anti-racism frameworks

Evidence

1. The government should adopt our definition of Islamophobia as anti-Muslim racism. As with many Black and minority ethnic groups, Muslims experience disadvantage and discrimination in a wide range of institutions and environments, from schools to the labour market to prisons to violence on the street. Policies to tackle Islamophobia should be developed in line with policies to tackle racial discrimination more generally, with the focus also on the real effects on people. Islamophobia is a complex issue, but so too are all forms of prejudice and discrimination. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 58

Categorization

• XREF: This policy position distinguishes the racialization camp from critics like Halliday who resist equating anti-Muslim sentiment with racism — the practical stakes of the definitional debate. — connects to: Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 159; Anti-Islamophobia frameworks can reproduce the very homogenization they oppose — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 397; Racism scholarship’s biologistic paradigms long excluded anti-Muslim discrimination as unclassifiable — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 588 (+7 more)
• ADDENDUM: Relates to the sacrificial/extremism theme only loosely, but more directly: it echoes how group-based discrimination operates structurally across institutions — relevant to the framing of Muslims as a coherent group, similar to the racialized-groups analysis.

Related

• Islamophobia is best understood and countered as a form of anti-Muslim racism. (similarity 0.91)
• Anti-Islamophobia must not become the sole analytical frame for studying Western Muslims (similarity 0.90)
• Racism scholarship’s biologistic paradigms long excluded anti-Muslim discrimination as unclassifiable (similarity 0.88)
• Mainstream anti-Islamophobia defense framed bias as cultural misunderstanding, not racism (similarity 0.88)
• Race analysis better captures anti-Muslim discrimination than religious-discrimination framing (similarity 0.87)
• Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism (similarity 0.87)
• Anti-Islamophobia frameworks can reproduce the very homogenization they oppose (similarity 0.87)
• Muslims were told anti-Muslim racism cannot exist because Muslims are not a race (similarity 0.87)
• Anti-racist movements often fail to see anti-Muslim bigotry as racism (similarity 0.86)
• Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle (similarity 0.86)
• Miles and Brown argue anti-Muslim phenomena fit existing racism and xenophobia theories (similarity 0.86)
• Mainstream race-equality bodies resisted framing Islamophobia as a racial issue (similarity 0.86)
• Mainstream race-equality groups narrowed Islamophobia to mere religious discrimination (similarity 0.85)
• Islamophobia study must adopt an explicitly justified normative framework such as multiculturalism (similarity 0.85)
• Islamophobia operates as a racial formation, not merely religious prejudice (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle #corroborates (0.88) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 159
• Muslims were told anti-Muslim racism cannot exist because Muslims are not a race #corroborates (0.82) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 583
• Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism #corroborates (0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 910
• Racism scholarship’s biologistic paradigms long excluded anti-Muslim discrimination as unclassifiable #corroborates (0.78) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 588
• Anti-Islamophobia must not become the sole analytical frame for studying Western Muslims #complicates (0.75) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 602
• Anti-Islamophobia frameworks can reproduce the very homogenization they oppose #complicates (0.72) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 397