British Muslims are a diverse minority diaspora, not a monolith

Evidence

In the United Kingdom, recent census data showed that approximately 2.7 million people (or 4.8 percent of the total population) define themselves as “Muslim.” This would make Muslims the second largest religious group in Great Britain after Christians (who represent 59.3 percent of the population). To break down the Muslim population a little further, a survey taken right after 9/11 showed that those of Pakistani origin made up 42.5 percent of the British Muslim population; Bangladeshis, 16.8 percent; Indians, 8.5 percent; and “other white” Muslims represented 7.5 percent of the population. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 535

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s fractured-diaspora framing and the heterogeneity theme across the Islamophobia literature. — connects to: Arab and South Asian identities have been conflated with Islam — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 173; Orientalist dissenters defended Islam’s internal diversity against essentializing stereotypes; Religious identity racializes Arab and South Asian Muslims along shared lines (+11 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 535

Related

• British Muslims form one of Europe’s most ethnically and birth-origin-diverse populations. (similarity 0.87)
• The ethnic makeup of Muslims varies widely by region in England. (similarity 0.85)
• British ‘ethnic minority’ communities are internally diverse and not segregated ghettos (similarity 0.84)
• The global Muslim population of 1.8 billion is internally diverse and geographically dispersed (similarity 0.83)
• Religion is one factor among many, not the defining one, in Muslim-majority societies (similarity 0.83)
• Arab and Muslim identities are distinct and overlap only partially. (similarity 0.82)
• British-born Muslims replaced ancestral ethnicity with religious identity (similarity 0.82)
• British Muslims were ethnicized before being recognized as a faith group (similarity 0.82)
• Global Muslim practice is internally diverse across sects and regions. (similarity 0.82)
• Muslim identity cannot be reduced to religion alone (similarity 0.81)
• Muslim migrants were initially subsumed under the hegemonic ‘Asian’ label (similarity 0.81)
• Muslim self-identification and British misperception drove border conflicts (similarity 0.81)
• Muslim identity is real but never the sole or primary form of social self-understanding. (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalism imagined Muslims as a monolithic Arab or Middle Eastern racial bloc. (similarity 0.80)
• American Islamophobia rests on homogenizing all Muslims into one monolithic culture. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Private citizens conflate Islam with the Middle East, erasing Muslim ethnic diversity #corroborates (0.80)
• Arab and South Asian identities have been conflated with Islam #expands (0.75) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 173
• Orientalist dissenters defended Islam’s internal diversity against essentializing stereotypes #corroborates (0.70)
• Arab and Muslim identities are distinct and overlap only partially. #corroborates (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 161
• Religious identity racializes Arab and South Asian Muslims along shared lines #complicates (0.60)
• Islam as identity marker is internationalist solidarity, not Arab nationalism recoded #expands (0.60)
• Postwar Europe’s Muslim population traced to French and British colonial ties #expands (0.55) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 336
• Ethnic segregation persists among Muslim Americans despite unified racialization #qualifies (0.55) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 519
• Islam is not foreign to New Zealand or antithetical to its values #exemplifies (0.50)