Britain has failed to officially define Islamophobia decades after Runnymede’s report

Evidence

Sadly, six years on from my first keynote speech on Islamophobia, there has been little funding for work combating Islamophobia and little political will to tackle the issue. Indeed, decades on from Runnymede’s early attempts to define Islamophobia, the UK government still does not have an agreed, published definition. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 36

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Runnymede report classed Islamophobia as racism without defining it as racism — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 264; Runnymede’s model failed to distinguish Islamophobia from other similar phenomena — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 642; The Runnymede Commission deliberately avoided Muslim self-scrutiny — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 402

Related

• The Runnymede report classed Islamophobia as racism without defining it as racism (similarity 0.90)
• Runnymede’s model failed to distinguish Islamophobia from other similar phenomena (similarity 0.89)
• The Runnymede model so dominated Islamophobia discourse that it escaped critical scrutiny (similarity 0.88)
• Runnymede’s 1997 definition founded but did not fix the field’s usage (similarity 0.88)
• The 1994 Runnymede report first acknowledged Islamophobia in British non-Muslim print. (similarity 0.88)
• The 1997 Runnymede report defined Islamophobia as faith-based discrimination beyond ethnicity (similarity 0.87)
• The Runnymede Trust acknowledged Islamophobia as racism in 1994 (similarity 0.87)
• The Runnymede report’s definition is self-reinforcing and theoretically weak (similarity 0.87)
• The Runnymede report introduced Islamophobia as marking Muslim-specific experience beyond shared discrimination. (similarity 0.86)
• The 1997 Runnymede definition fused hostility to Islam with discrimination against Muslims (similarity 0.86)
• The Runnymede report reframed anti-Muslim prejudice as faith-based rather than ethnic. (similarity 0.86)
• Public Islamophobia debate lacks empirical grounding and nuance (similarity 0.86)
• The Runnymede Commission deliberately avoided Muslim self-scrutiny (similarity 0.86)
• The Runnymede Report gained authority despite being a non-academic policy document (similarity 0.86)
• The Runnymede Trust defines Islamophobia as a form of racism against Muslims (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• The Runnymede report classed Islamophobia as racism without defining it as racism #corroborates (0.82) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 264
• Runnymede’s model failed to distinguish Islamophobia from other similar phenomena #expands (0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 642