Focusing only on Muslims cannot redress hostility directed at Islam itself

Evidence

It is hard to see, given the breadth of subjects that would fall under the descriptive power of the term ‘Islamic’ (food, dress, lifestyle, schools, finance, etc.) how a focus on Muslims but not Islam would provide redress for both the object of hostility and its victims. Would it be reasonable to expect Muslims to adopt a utilitarian approach to challenging biased attitudes, focusing on the victims (Muslims) but not the object of hostility (Islam)? — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 637

Categorization

• XREF: This is the text’s main rebuttal to Bleich’s and Halliday’s narrowing moves (Muslim-focused definitions) — a key counter-punch in the definitional battle the reader is mapping. — connects to: Hostility today targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith. — Fred Halliday, ‘Islamophobia’ Reconsidered, 48; Retaining the term Islamophobia centers hostility on Islam itself. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 615

Related

• Retaining the term Islamophobia centers hostility on Islam itself. (similarity 0.87)
• Hostility today targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith. (similarity 0.87)
• Halliday argues the contemporary phenomenon targets Muslims as people, not Islam as faith (similarity 0.85)
• Halliday argues modern hostility targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith. (similarity 0.85)
• Anti-Muslim rhetoric still targets Islam as a religion, not just its adherents. (similarity 0.85)
• Retaining ‘Islamophobia’ over victim-centred terms is necessary because media negativity attaches to ‘Islam’ itself. (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobia need not rest on false beliefs about Islam or Muslims. (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia terminology helps civil society address both causes and effects (similarity 0.82)
• The 1997 Runnymede definition fused hostility to Islam with discrimination against Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• Efforts to define Islam are what define understanding of Islamophobia (similarity 0.82)
• The term Islamophobia demands a better-grounded, contestable definition (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia is best understood and countered as a form of anti-Muslim racism. (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia may target Islamic doctrine and Muslims separately or together (similarity 0.82)
• A valid Islamophobia concept must avoid essentialising Muslims or Islam. (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia functions as an indiscriminate umbrella term serving varied agendas (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Hostility today targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith. #contradicts (0.95) — Fred Halliday, ‘Islamophobia’ Reconsidered, 48
• Retaining the term Islamophobia centers hostility on Islam itself. #contradicts (0.80) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 615