Anti-Muslim hate crime creates parallel lives by preventing cross-community engagement
Evidence
As such, anti-Muslim hate crime affects wider society on the basis that it isolates and excludes Muslims, thereby creating fear, resentment and mistrust of the ‘Muslim Other’. The separation of communities based on this dichotomy promotes a situation where both Muslims and non-Muslims live in fear of each other. This separation prevents ‘us’ and ‘them’ from interacting with each other and increases fear of engagement on both sides. As such, anti-Muslim hate crime promotes the notion of ‘parallel lives’ and self-enclosed communities. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 368
Categorization
- XREF: The ‘parallel lives’ claim connects to the community cohesion agenda debate — the report is contesting the framing that places integration burden on Muslims, a position distinct from both Bleich’s neutral concept and the Runnymede framework. — connects to: Islamophobic hate crime constrains Muslim women and harms bystander group members. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 151; Anti-Muslim hate crime forces spatial retreat and self-segregation that is coerced, not chosen. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 369; Hate crimes inflict greater harm than equivalent non-targeted crimes. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 361 (+4 more)
Related
- Anti-Muslim hate crime forces spatial retreat and self-segregation that is coerced, not chosen. (similarity 0.87)
- Hate crimes function as terroristic message crimes targeting entire communities. (similarity 0.86)
- Hate crimes inflict greater harm than equivalent non-targeted crimes. (similarity 0.84)
- Anti-Muslim hate crime harms target victims’ intrinsic identity and reach the whole Muslim community (similarity 0.83)
- Withdrawal from public life after hate crime is coerced safety, not choice (similarity 0.83)
- Anti-Muslim hate crime drives victims to conceal Muslim identity and flee localities. (similarity 0.81)
- Islamophobic hate crime constrains Muslim women and harms bystander group members. (similarity 0.80)
- Anti-Muslim hate crime functions as repeat victimization, not isolated incidents (similarity 0.80)
- British post-riot reports framed Muslim communities as self-segregating parallel lives (similarity 0.79)
- Anti-Muslim hate crime produces cumulative psychological trauma through repeatedly relived incidents. (similarity 0.78)