Halliday rejects the report’s claim that history explains contemporary anti-Muslim sentiment

Evidence

Whilst it cites Halliday to substantiate their viewpoint, Halliday himself argues something quite different. Halliday states that ‘to identify these relics and revivals [of anti-Muslim expression or belief] is not to prove a continuity of culture or politics’ but – writing some years after the report’s publication – that ‘the past provides a reserve of reference and symbol for the present: it does not explain it …’ because ’… significant differences of emphasis, prejudice and engagement depending on the colonial histories, the geographical location and the composition of the immigrant community’ have emerged. History therefore is be used as a frame of reference to assist and explain contemporary understanding. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 353

Categorization

• XREF: Central to the reader’s survey: Halliday’s position against the Runnymede report’s repudiation of history. — connects to: EUMC evidence shows anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim phenomena coexist, contradicting Halliday — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 686; Halliday argues the contemporary phenomenon targets Muslims as people, not Islam as faith — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 684; 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

Related

• EUMC evidence shows anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim phenomena coexist, contradicting Halliday (similarity 0.90)
• Halliday argues the contemporary phenomenon targets Muslims as people, not Islam as faith (similarity 0.90)
• Halliday argues modern hostility targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith. (similarity 0.84)
• Hostility today targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith. (similarity 0.83)
• Casting hostility to Muslims as perennial misattributes contemporary causes to religion. (similarity 0.83)
• Evidence of anti-Muslim incidents has not convinced many of Islamophobia as a distinct phenomenon (similarity 0.82)
• Contemporary meanings of Islam are framed by atavistic historical precedents (similarity 0.82)
• History illuminates current Islamophobia but not as a fixed or reliably accurate backdrop (similarity 0.81)
• Islamism is a distinctly non-Western modernity that rejects rather than adapts Western discourse. (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Muslim rhetoric still targets Islam as a religion, not just its adherents. (similarity 0.80)
• History frames current understanding rather than predetermining it (similarity 0.80)
• Today’s Islamophobia is continuous with, not unique from, historical precedent (similarity 0.79)
• Muslims were told anti-Muslim racism cannot exist because Muslims are not a race (similarity 0.79)
• Miles and Brown argue anti-Muslim phenomena fit existing racism and xenophobia theories (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia need not rest on false beliefs about Islam or Muslims. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• EUMC evidence shows anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim phenomena coexist, contradicting Halliday #contradicts (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 686
• Halliday argues the contemporary phenomenon targets Muslims as people, not Islam as faith #expands (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 684
• Halliday argues modern hostility targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith. #expands (0.85) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 87