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)

Broader Connections