British Muslims face a double bind of suspicion either way they engage

Evidence

This important and timely report is an important resource for those interested in understanding and addressing Islamophobia. It offers insight into the experiences of Muslims in Britain today, who, as I highlight in my book The Enemy Within, feel they are caught in a no-win place. If they engage with politics and British institutions they are viewed as suspicious, as ‘entryists’, but if they keep themselves to themselves they are viewed as ‘separatists’, disengaged from mainstream society. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 36

Categorization

• XREF: The entryist/separatist double bind resonates with the reader’s knowledge of racialized citizenship debates — parallels The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s protagonist caught between suspicion and assimilation, and how any move by the racialized subject is read against them. — connects to: British Muslims are trapped between accusations of entryism and separatism. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 41; UK state intervention shaped and rivalized Muslim political representation. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 495; Muslim people in the UK face heightened risk of poorer health outcomes. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 313 (+4 more)

Related

• British Muslims are trapped between accusations of entryism and separatism. (similarity 0.94)
• Islamophobia is one of several challenges British Muslims confront. (similarity 0.81)
• A worldwide Muslim threat narrative came to frame British perceptions (similarity 0.80)
• The Muslim threat was framed as infesting Britain’s body and values (similarity 0.80)
• Suspicion of Britain’s Muslims predates modern biological racism (similarity 0.80)
• Muslim political actors in 1990 Britain already perceived a state campaign against them. (similarity 0.79)
• Muslim people in the UK face heightened risk of poorer health outcomes. (similarity 0.79)
• UK integration discourse framed Muslims as demographic threats to national existence (similarity 0.78)
• Muslim self-identification and British misperception drove border conflicts (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A worldwide Muslim threat narrative came to frame British perceptions #corroborates (0.85)
• Muslim bodies are treated as potential terrorists until proven otherwise #corroborates (0.85) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 282
• An ethnic minority identity invites questions while a Muslim identity invites hostile expulsion #exemplifies (0.80)