Global events normalized Islamophobic discourse and made Muslims the ultimate Other

Evidence

In the last 20 years, global events have mainstreamed the politicization of ordinary Muslims, as described by Meer and Modood (2009). This has led to a normalization of Islamophobic discourse and has cemented Muslims’ position as the ‘ultimate Other’ (Archer 2001). When exploring data on attitudes, Storm et al. (2017) reported that Muslims are on the whole viewed with more hostility than all other groups, by all other groups. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 255

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that geopolitics ‘mainstreamed’ anti-Muslim discourse is a causal claim that the Runnymede ‘open/closed views’ framework and the decolonial framing both treat as the engine of Islamophobia — good for positioning this text’s stance. — connects to: Depicting the Other’s politics as sexualized madness marks them as an inferior race; “Splitting” renders the Rest the West’s mirror-image Other; Identity is constituted through splitting and an interiorized Other, not pure difference. (+23 more)

Related

• Islamophobic content has shifted from crude cartoons to globally shared narratives and institutional suspicion. (similarity 0.85)
• Islamophobia operates through shared cultural meaning-making structures that predate any current event (similarity 0.83)
• Homogenizing Islam as a monolithic culture anchors all Othering frames (similarity 0.83)
• Late twentieth-century Islamophobia shifted from Orientalist exoticism toward politicised and militarised framing (similarity 0.82)
• Post-2000 European Islamophobia emerged from terror, media, and the war on terror (similarity 0.82)
• The Cold War’s end left Islam and the West mutually perceived threats (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobic narratives shifted from vulgar cartoons to acceptable generalized suspicion (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia analysis must center Muslim agency and recognition, not mere Othering. (similarity 0.81)
• Recourse to Muslim culture masks Islamophobia while homogenizing all Muslims (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia is best understood as context-dependent plural phenomena (similarity 0.81)
• Fragmenting Muslims into moderates and extremists disseminates Islamophobic ideology as effectively as unifying them. (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia gained massive discursive resonance in Europe within about a decade (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia spans liberal and conservative mainstreams, not just the fringe right (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobic ideology self-perpetuates as natural and normative (similarity 0.80)
• A coded lexicon spread fundamentalism’s connotations across all discourse about Muslims (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Islamophobia operates through shared cultural meaning-making structures that predate any current event #expands (0.82) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 900
• Post-2000 European Islamophobia emerged from terror, media, and the war on terror #corroborates (0.82) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 568
• Islamophobia is best understood as context-dependent plural phenomena #qualifies (0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 199
• Migration and global media collapsed the conceptual distance separating Europeans from Muslims #corroborates (0.78) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 569
• Perceptions of the Other are always shaped by available cultural tools #corroborates (0.77) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 351
• Islamophobic narratives shifted from vulgar cartoons to acceptable generalized suspicion #corroborates (0.76) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 81
• Islamophobia worldwide shares the core link between Islam and terrorism #qualifies (0.75)
• A coded lexicon spread fundamentalism’s connotations across all discourse about Muslims #expands (0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 223
• Media distinction between Islam and terrorism was blurred by inflationary language #expands (0.74) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 571
• Islamophobia gained massive discursive resonance in Europe within about a decade #corroborates (0.74) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 541
• The pandemic generated new Islamophobic scapegoating across countries #exemplifies (0.74)
• Europeans project their repressed evil onto the racialized Other #expands (0.73)
• Late twentieth-century Islamophobia shifted from Orientalist exoticism toward politicised and militarised framing #expands (0.72) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 214
• Islam shifted to the center of anti-terrorism discourse by 1984 #expands (0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 397
• Elites mobilized Islamophobia to advance their political agendas across centuries #expands (0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 98