Britain first recognized Muslims only through the lens of fundamentalism

Evidence

Given that British Muslims and the presence of Islam in Britain had previously been unacknowledged – collectively defined within the homogenous marker of ‘Asian’ as identified by Modood previously – so the first formal recognition of British Muslims and Islam in Britain was such that it became indistinguishable from fundamentalist forms of Islam that were seen to exist elsewhere in the world. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 233

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s definitional-camps survey: this is the Runnymede/racialization origin story — how an identity category (British Muslims) was constituted by prejudice from its very first formal recognition. — connects to: British Muslims were ethnicized before being recognized as a faith group — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 185; British Muslims were first publicly recognised through a fundamentalist lens. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 233; A worldwide Muslim threat narrative came to frame British perceptions

Related

• British Muslims were first publicly recognised through a fundamentalist lens. (similarity 0.95)
• British Muslims were ethnicized before being recognized as a faith group (similarity 0.88)
• A worldwide Muslim threat narrative came to frame British perceptions (similarity 0.84)
• Suspicion of Britain’s Muslims predates modern biological racism (similarity 0.83)
• The Muslim threat was framed as infesting Britain’s body and values (similarity 0.82)
• Religious identity grew more salient than ethnicity among later-generation British Muslims (similarity 0.80)
• Britain has failed to officially define Islamophobia decades after Runnymede’s report (similarity 0.80)
• Early media coverage framed British Muslim identity as inherently anti-establishment. (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia is one of several challenges British Muslims confront. (similarity 0.79)
• British Muslims were reduced to terrorists or apologists, collapsing into one stereotype. (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia requires an acknowledged Muslim or Islamic element to be identified. (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia centers on recognition of Muslim-ness and its ideological meaning (similarity 0.79)
• British Muslims are a diverse minority diaspora, not a monolith (similarity 0.78)
• An acknowledged Muslim or Islamic element is the defining criterion of Islamophobia (similarity 0.78)
• Muslim migrants were initially subsumed under the hegemonic ‘Asian’ label (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• British Muslims were first publicly recognised through a fundamentalist lens. #corroborates (0.98) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 233
• A worldwide Muslim threat narrative came to frame British perceptions #expands (0.80)