Exclusionary practices are Islamophobic through their causal origins, not their form
Evidence
Miles and Brown identify two forms of exclusionary practice that can be identified and proven from the premise established here. The first relates to circumstances where exclusionary practices arise from and subsequently embody an Islamophobic discourse but which may not be explicitly justified by it. The second relates to circumstances where explicitly racist discourses are modified in such ways that the explicit content is eliminated and replaced by discourses that carry the original meanings and functions. In both circumstances, Islamophobia discourses would be relatively silent but nonetheless embodied in the continuity and perpetuation of the exclusionary practice or in the necessary deployment of new language or terminologies to support such. Conceptually therefore, Islamophobic exclusionary practices (institutional’ Islamophobia?) neither necessarily nor specifically refer to the exclusionary practice itself but to the fact that a once present discourse has either justified or initiated an exclusionary practice to the detriment, discrimination or exclusion of Muslims, either individually or collectively. The practice in itself therefore fails to be ‘Islamophobic’ whereas the underlying cause or motivation might. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 804
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Islamophobic acts are defined by ideological motive, not the act itself — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 573; Islamophobic exclusionary practices remain empirically unproven. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 903; Hard evidence for Islamophobic exclusionary practices remains scarce and largely anecdotal — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 903 (+7 more)
Related
- Islamophobic exclusionary practices remain empirically unproven. (similarity 0.91)
- Hard evidence for Islamophobic exclusionary practices remains scarce and largely anecdotal (similarity 0.88)
- Proving Islamophobia requires demonstrating a prior causal ideology, not mere outcomes (similarity 0.87)
- Exclusionary practices must be analytically separable from the ideology behind them (similarity 0.86)
- Islamophobia is the meaning disseminated about Muslims and Islam rather than any single act (similarity 0.86)
- Islamophobia is an ideology, not a set of actions or practices (similarity 0.85)
- Islamophobia can only be substantiated through provable consequential harm (similarity 0.85)
- Islamophobia comprises ideology, modes of operation, and exclusionary practices (similarity 0.82)
- Evidence of anti-Muslim incidents has not convinced many of Islamophobia as a distinct phenomenon (similarity 0.82)
- Islamophobia requires an acknowledged Muslim or Islamic element to be identified. (similarity 0.82)
- Islamophobia is an ideology sustaining negative meaning about Muslims. (similarity 0.81)
- Treating Islamophobia as religious misunderstanding leaves root causes untouched (similarity 0.81)
- Islamophobia’s political origin explains gaps in empirical knowledge about it. (similarity 0.80)
- Miles and Brown argue anti-Muslim phenomena fit existing racism and xenophobia theories (similarity 0.80)
- Islamophobia is an ideological construct with real consequences, not mere discourse (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Islamophobic exclusionary practices remain empirically unproven.
#contradicts(0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 903 - Conceptualizing Islamophobia must separate its forms from the phenomenon itself
#expands(0.82) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 653 - Hard evidence for Islamophobic exclusionary practices remains scarce and largely anecdotal
#contradicts(0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 903 - Islamophobia has material and political causes beyond ignorance or xenophobia
#expands(0.78) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 706 - Islamophobia originates in ambiguous citizenship models, not in fear of Islam itself.
#complicates(0.75) - Islamophobia is an ideology, not a set of actions or practices
#contradicts(0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 832 - Islamophobia is powered by the overlap of Muslims being both inside and outside
#qualifies(0.74) - Islamophobia as a term originated as an activist denunciatory label, not an analytical concept
#complicates(0.72) — Erik Bleich, What Is Islamophobia and How Much Is…, 6