Islamophobia is best understood and countered as a form of anti-Muslim racism.
Evidence
The government should adopt our definition of Islamophobia as anti-Muslim racism. As with many Black and minority ethnic groups, Muslims experience disadvantage and discrimination in a wide range of institutions and environments, from schools to the labour market to prisons to violence on the street. Policies to tackle Islamophobia should be developed in line with policies to tackle racial discrimination more generally, with the focus also on the real effects on people. Islamophobia is a complex issue, but so too are all forms of prejudice and discrimination. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 116
Categorization
- DEFINE: Positions the text in the racialization camp — the post-2017 Runnymede turn that defines Islamophobia as anti-Muslim racism, aligned with the UN definition of racism against Bleich’s neutral attitudinal concept.
- QUESTION: How does this definitional choice sit against Halliday’s ‘anti-Muslimism’ critique, which argued the term ‘Islamophobia’ wrongly targets a religion rather than a people?
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing mapping of the definitional field: Runnymede’s original open/closed distinction, the 2017 racialization turn, and Bleich’s concept-formation critique. — connects to: Anti-Muslim racism is analytically parallel to European antisemitism against Jews as Jews. — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 28; Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 910; Islamophobia is defined as anti-Muslim racism, not merely fear or dislike — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 48 (+3 more)
Related
- The Runnymede Trust defines Islamophobia as a form of racism against Muslims (similarity 0.92)
- Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism (similarity 0.92)
- Islamophobia is defined as anti-Muslim racism, not merely fear or dislike (similarity 0.91)
- Anti-Muslim discrimination should be fought through existing anti-racism frameworks (similarity 0.91)
- The Runnymede report classed Islamophobia as racism without defining it as racism (similarity 0.90)
- Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle (similarity 0.90)
- Islamophobia is an ideology sustaining negative meaning about Muslims. (similarity 0.90)
- Islamophobia as a term originally means unfounded hostility toward Islam, not structural racism. (similarity 0.89)
- Islamophobia is best understood by what it does rather than by defining its boundaries (similarity 0.89)
- Four conceptual moves permit the de-racialization of Islamophobia (similarity 0.89)
- Efforts to define Islam are what define understanding of Islamophobia (similarity 0.88)
- Definitions of Islamophobia double as policy interventions, not neutral analysis (similarity 0.88)
- The report’s racial-religious conflation undermines Islamophobia’s distinctiveness as a category (similarity 0.88)
- Islamophobia is rarely analyzed through the lens of race and racism. (similarity 0.88)
- Interpreting Islamophobia solely as cultural racism essentialises and reduces the faith (similarity 0.88)
Broader Connections
- Islamophobia is defined as anti-Muslim racism, not merely fear or dislike
#corroborates(0.92) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 48 - Islamophobia is increasingly theorized as a form of racism rather than mere religious prejudice
#corroborates(0.85) - Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism
#corroborates(0.82) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 910 - Islamophobia operates as cultural racism rooted in religion, culture, and ethnicity rather than biology.
#expands(0.78) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 92