Halliday argues the contemporary phenomenon targets Muslims as people, not Islam as faith

Evidence

Suggesting ‘anti-Muslimism’ as more appropriate, Halliday argued that what with such phenomena being almost entirely anti-Muslim, naming it ‘Islamophobia’ was both misleading and inaccurate. … Islam as a religion was the enemy in the past – in the Crusades of the reconquista. It is not the enemy now … the attack now is against not Islam as a faith but against Muslims as people … the term ‘Islamophobia’ is … misleading. The rhetoric is ‘anti-Muslim’ rather than ‘anti-Islamic’. The rhetoric is against people, not religion. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 684

Categorization

• XREF: This is the key rival-position statement the reader’s module needs — Halliday’s terminological critique against Runnymede. — connects to: Hostility today targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith. — Fred Halliday, ‘Islamophobia’ Reconsidered, 48; Halliday rejects the report’s claim that history explains contemporary anti-Muslim sentiment — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 353; Halliday argues modern hostility targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 87 (+3 more)
• SEED: The ‘rhetoric against people, not religion’ line is a quotable anchor for an essay contrasting naming choices with the racialization turn.

Related

• Hostility today targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith. (similarity 0.91)
• Halliday argues modern hostility targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith. (similarity 0.91)
• Halliday rejects the report’s claim that history explains contemporary anti-Muslim sentiment (similarity 0.90)
• Anti-Muslim rhetoric still targets Islam as a religion, not just its adherents. (similarity 0.87)
• EUMC evidence shows anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim phenomena coexist, contradicting Halliday (similarity 0.86)
• Focusing only on Muslims cannot redress hostility directed at Islam itself (similarity 0.85)
• Casting hostility to Muslims as perennial misattributes contemporary causes to religion. (similarity 0.84)
• Fred Halliday — ‘Islamophobia’ Reconsidered (similarity 0.83)
• The term Islamophobia demands a better-grounded, contestable definition (similarity 0.82)
• Muslims were told anti-Muslim racism cannot exist because Muslims are not a race (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia functions as an indiscriminate umbrella term serving varied agendas (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia is best understood and countered as a form of anti-Muslim racism. (similarity 0.81)
• Garton Ash reproduced Runnymede’s framework while refusing the term Islamophobia (similarity 0.81)
• The Runnymede report classed Islamophobia as racism without defining it as racism (similarity 0.81)
• The 1997 Runnymede definition fused hostility to Islam with discrimination against Muslims (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Halliday argues modern hostility targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith. #corroborates (0.95) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 87
• Anti-Muslim rhetoric still targets Islam as a religion, not just its adherents. #contradicts (0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 89
• EUMC evidence shows anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim phenomena coexist, contradicting Halliday #contradicts (0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 686
• Casting hostility to Muslims as perennial misattributes contemporary causes to religion. #expands (0.75) — Fred Halliday, ‘Islamophobia’ Reconsidered, 48