Brexit intensified Islamophobic abuse against non-Muslim South Asians.

Evidence

As a Sikh man who wears a turban I experience a hyper-visibility. Over the years various national or global events have precipitated an intensification of abuse directed at me. Most recently I found myself the target of a high level of abuse following the 2016 Brexit referendum. Much of the abuse levelled at me takes on an Islamophobic tinge. Abuse took place both online and on the street as I attempted to go to work. As I walked past people they would make monkey sounds. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 542

Categorization

• XREF: The Sikh-victim testimony as evidence that Islamophobia operationalizes race rather than religious belief — supporting the racialization definition over Bleich’s religion-based one. — connects to: Islamophobia and immigration anxiety drove the Brexit vote and European racist resurgence; Islamophobic abuse targets non-Muslim visible minorities mistaken for Muslims. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 547

Related

• Islamophobic abuse targets non-Muslim visible minorities mistaken for Muslims. (similarity 0.86)
• Immigration politics and Islamophobia drove the Brexit outcome in 2016. (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia and immigration anxiety drove the Brexit vote and European racist resurgence (similarity 0.79)