Islamophobia predates its modern name as a racial logic

Evidence

Although ”Islamophobia” is a fairly recent neologism, it has long existed as a conceptual framework; as a kind of racism that developed in relation to the history of the concept of race. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 104 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The de-raceing of Islamophobia can be traced to four interlinked conceptual sleights of hand: first, the reduction of our understanding of what racism is to explicit and violent interpersonal expressions of hatred focused on narrow biological markers, stripping out its social, structural and historical context (Song 2014); second, the denial of ‘Muslim’ as a racial or ethnic category (unlike, for example, Sikhs or Jews) and a corollary denial of Muslims being victims of racism as Muslims; third, the placing of Islam as a category of choice, rather than ascription, and as therefore separate from the embodied being of its adherents (‘culture’ rather than ‘race’); and fourth, and relatedly, the overemphasis on ‘Islamic culture’ or ‘Muslim culture’ as a foundational explanation for the slew of assumed pathologies discussed above. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 165 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: European colonial racial practice of differentiating Islam preceded and enabled modern Islamophobia; The term Islamophobia originated in a 1991 Runnymede Trust report; Islamophobia operates as a racial formation, not merely religious prejudice — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 46 (+16 more)

Broader Connections

• Islamophobia predates its neologism as a racism tied to the history of race #corroborates (0.97) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 104
• Four conceptual moves permit the de-racialization of Islamophobia #complicates (0.75) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 165