Islamophobia is one of several challenges British Muslims confront.
Evidence
We do not claim to cover all the issues affecting British Muslims, nor are we arguing that Islamophobia is the only challenge Muslims face. Instead, this report outlines why Islamophobia matters to everyone in 21st-century Britain, and how we all can and should respond to it. β A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 47
Categorization
- XREF: This anti-totalising caveat anticipates the critique that a single-oppression framing erases class, citizenship, and other axes β relevant to the contested debate over how Islamophobia is defined. β connects to: One in four Britons expressed hostility toward Muslims in Pew surveys. β Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the βMuslimβ¦, 21; State counter-terrorism focus has fostered and furthered Islamophobia in the UK β Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Usβ¦, 384; Combating Islamophobia requires seeing it as interlaced with xenophobia and classism. β A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 512 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- State counter-terrorism focus has fostered and furthered Islamophobia in the UK
#expands(0.85) β Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 384 - Combating Islamophobia requires seeing it as interlaced with xenophobia and classism.
#expands(0.72) β A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 512 - Islamophobia denotes fear, hatred, and hostility toward Muslims and Islam.
#expands(0.72) β Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction toβ¦, 31 - A worldwide Muslim threat narrative came to frame British perceptions
#expands(0.70) - Islamophobia has become the dominant prejudice in Western societies
#expands(0.70) β Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 15