Feminism that ignores anti-Muslim racism is inconsistent

Evidence

This is not only a question of good social-scientific and policy analysis, but one of solidarity. People who purport to be feminist when it comes to Muslim women, while at the same time affirming Islamophobic tropes and failing to address wider gender or other inequalities, are inconsistent. Tackling gender inequality generally will indeed benefit Muslim women, but those benefits will be incomplete unless anti-Muslim racism is directly challenged too. Because of the way that Muslim women are particularly affected by anti-Muslim racism, we must reaffirm the need to challenge all forms of gender and racial inequality, to improve the lives of Muslim women and all people affected by social inequalities and injustice. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 579

Categorization

• XREF: This political solidaristic stance contrasts directly with Bleich’s insistence that Islamophobia be a neutral, measurable social-scientific concept rather than a political claim. — connects to: Veil-scepticism narratives deny Muslim women agency and ignore reverse coercion — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 561; Muslim women’s gender inequality is inseparable from anti-Muslim racism — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 581; Analyzing Muslim women through Islamophobic tropes is inconsistent with genuine feminism. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 584 (+6 more)

Related

• Analyzing Muslim women through Islamophobic tropes is inconsistent with genuine feminism. (similarity 0.94)
• Muslim women’s gender inequality is inseparable from anti-Muslim racism (similarity 0.90)
• Singling out Islam for sexism is systematic othering, not historical oversight. (similarity 0.85)
• A dominant group’s feminism can shut down solidarity by erasing Muslim women’s agency (similarity 0.83)
• Western feminist narratives can hijack genuine women’s-rights concerns for racist ends (similarity 0.82)
• Gendered Muslim stereotypes are mutually constitutive and deny both sexes agency. (similarity 0.82)
• Depicting feminism as Western-only erases Muslim feminist movements (similarity 0.81)
• Liberal and far-right Islamophobia converge on gender rights claims against Muslim culture (similarity 0.81)
• Western women’s post-feminist agency is constructed against the figure of the oppressed Muslim woman. (similarity 0.81)
• Gendered Islamophobia imposes the most distorted stereotypes on veiled Muslim women. (similarity 0.80)
• Gendered stereotypes of Muslim men and women are formed in relation to each other. (similarity 0.80)
• Erasing non-Western feminist activity constitutes a silencing Islamophobic move (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobic rhetoric becomes hardest to challenge when feminist spokespersons adopt it (similarity 0.80)
• Veil-scepticism narratives deny Muslim women agency and ignore reverse coercion (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial feminism used saving Muslim women to justify imperialism (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The hijab-oppresses-women narrative is sexist and contradicts surveyed Muslim women #exemplifies (0.80) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 373
• Feminist literature is often racist and sexist despite its liberatory rhetoric #expands (0.80) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 553
• Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle #complicates (0.78) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 159
• Erasing non-Western feminist activity constitutes a silencing Islamophobic move #expands (0.75)