Counter-terrorism policy forced Muslim groups into complicity or exclusion.
Evidence
As a result Muslim groups ‘were faced with having to be complicit and agreeable or be excluded from the discussion’. The chapter goes on to discuss the impact of topdown approaches to structuring Muslim political representation. These factors have significantly impaired the capacity of Muslim groups and organizations to address Islamophobia, something that might not have been envisaged in 1997. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 145
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the broader literature on state co-optation of minority civil society and securitization, analogous to post-9/11 Muslim engagement dynamics in the UK and elsewhere. — connects to: Governments select Muslim interlocutors only when they accept official assumptions. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 492; Counter-terrorism policy and imposed loyalty requirements shaped Muslim political engagement — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 138; Counterterrorism rhetoric masks an offensive campaign against Muslims. (+13 more)
Related
- Counter-terrorism policy and imposed loyalty requirements shaped Muslim political engagement (similarity 0.91)
- Prevent counter-terrorism policy harms and alienates British Muslim communities. (similarity 0.87)
- UK counter-terror funding redirected civic support away from Islamophobia work. (similarity 0.87)
- Prevent alienates the Muslim communities it claims to engage. (similarity 0.85)
- Integration policy must be decoupled from counter-terrorism aims. (similarity 0.85)
- UK state intervention shaped and rivalized Muslim political representation. (similarity 0.84)
- Prevent’s first phase explicitly placed its burden on Muslim communities (similarity 0.84)
- Government engagement with Muslim groups was conditional on accepting state security assumptions. (similarity 0.84)
- UK ministers used coercive funding measures against Muslim organizations (similarity 0.84)
- Anti-terror safety demands are displaced onto Muslims disproportionately (similarity 0.84)
- Prevent policy is discriminatory, disproportionate, and counterproductive (similarity 0.83)
- Muslims disproportionately bear the human-rights costs of counter-terrorism (similarity 0.83)
- Muslim political actors in 1990 Britain already perceived a state campaign against them. (similarity 0.82)
- Governments select Muslim interlocutors only when they accept official assumptions. (similarity 0.82)
- Covert policies couched as counterterrorism provoked no protest while overt anti-Muslim rhetoric did. (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Counter-terrorism policy and imposed loyalty requirements shaped Muslim political engagement
#corroborates(0.85) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 138 - Perceived surveillance pressure drives Muslims to preemptively perform anti-terror condemnation
#expands(0.80) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 623 - Anti-terror safety demands are displaced onto Muslims disproportionately
#expands(0.78) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 432 - Muslims disproportionately bear the human-rights costs of counter-terrorism
#corroborates(0.78) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 427 - Obama’s counter-radicalization strategy turned Muslim communities into informants
#exemplifies(0.78) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 582 - Prevent alienates the Muslim communities it claims to engage.
#corroborates(0.74) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 390 - Prevent is discriminatory in operation and alienates the Muslims it aims to engage
#exemplifies(0.74) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 385 - Counterterrorism rhetoric masks an offensive campaign against Muslims.
#corroborates(0.72) - Prevent counter-terrorism policy harms and alienates British Muslim communities.
#exemplifies(0.72) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 437 - Anti-terror policing may have created a new offense of political protest while Muslim.
#expands(0.72) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 583 - Muslims were forced to reframe religious practice as cultural preservation to access public funds
#expands(0.70) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 181