British official dossier linked its own foreign policy to Muslim radicalization

Evidence

A Foreign Office and Home Office dossier cited in the Sunday Times today states what any intelligent observer already knows: It seems that a particularly strong cause of disillusionment among Muslims, including young Muslims, is a perceived “double standard” in the foreign policy of western governments, in particular Britain and the US. The perception is that passive “oppression”, as demonstrated in British foreign policy, e.g. non-action on Kashmir and Chechnya, has given way to “active oppression”. The war on terror, and in Iraq and Afghanistan, are all seen by a section of British Muslims as having been acts against Islam. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1427

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the causal chain argued throughout The New Crusades and base-terror work. — connects to: British press blame for radicalization shifted toward extremist Islam itself — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 640; A worldwide Muslim threat narrative came to frame British perceptions; UK integration policy redefined Muslim integration as an antidote to extremism — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 446 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• British press blame for radicalization shifted toward extremist Islam itself #expands (0.85) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 640
• A worldwide Muslim threat narrative came to frame British perceptions #expands (0.80)
• Official UK integration strategy framed Muslims as a threat to national cohesion #expands (0.78) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 451
• UK integration policy redefined Muslim integration as an antidote to extremism #expands (0.75) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 446
• Divide-and-conquer foreign policy tactics moved into domestic Muslim communities via CVE #expands (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 409
• Britain secretly subsidized Arabic newspapers and textbooks to spread Orientalist ideas #corroborates (0.72)
• Official rhetoric framing Islam as ideology licensed anti-Muslim suspicion #expands (0.72) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 864
• The War on Terror exported Muslim-suspicion doctrine that nations adapted locally #expands (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 67