Anti-racist orgs once treated religion as a separate axis from race.

Evidence

In particular, Runnymede followed many other race equality or anti-racist organizations in studiously avoiding too much discussion of or focus on religion or faith. Religion, faith and belief were seen to raise a different set of issues from those relating to race and ethnicity, which might even have more in common with gender or sexual orientation than with religion. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 89

Categorization

• XREF: This is the 1997 definitional context for the field’s central contest: why religion was separated from race before the 2017 racialization turn toward ‘anti-Muslim racism’. — connects to: The report pressed governments to treat religion like race in equality policy — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 745; Anti-racist organizations historically avoided treating religion as within their remit — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 84; Mainstream race-equality groups narrowed Islamophobia to mere religious discrimination — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 748 (+3 more)

Related

• Anti-racist organizations historically avoided treating religion as within their remit (similarity 0.97)
• Mainstream race-equality bodies resisted framing Islamophobia as a racial issue (similarity 0.90)
• Mainstream race-equality groups narrowed Islamophobia to mere religious discrimination (similarity 0.90)
• The report pressed governments to treat religion like race in equality policy (similarity 0.87)
• Trustees resisted an Islamophobia commission as a radical break from the colour-based race paradigm. (similarity 0.87)
• Muslim groups embraced the report while race-equality institutions ignored it (similarity 0.86)
• Muslims were told anti-Muslim racism cannot exist because Muslims are not a race (similarity 0.86)
• The report’s racial-religious conflation undermines Islamophobia’s distinctiveness as a category (similarity 0.85)
• Mainstream anti-Islamophobia defense framed bias as cultural misunderstanding, not racism (similarity 0.85)
• The commission’s Islamophobia work left the race relations paradigm untouched (similarity 0.84)
• Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle (similarity 0.84)
• Anti-racist movements often fail to see anti-Muslim bigotry as racism (similarity 0.84)
• Anti-Muslim discrimination should be fought through existing anti-racism frameworks (similarity 0.84)
• The Runnymede Trust’s founding paradigm was colour-based race relations, not religion. (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia is best understood and countered as a form of anti-Muslim racism. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Anti-racist organizations historically avoided treating religion as within their remit #corroborates (0.95) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 84
• Mainstream race-equality bodies resisted framing Islamophobia as a racial issue #corroborates (0.90) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 753
• Mainstream race-equality groups narrowed Islamophobia to mere religious discrimination #corroborates (0.85) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 748
• Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle #expands (0.80) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 159