Islamophobic ideology self-perpetuates as natural and normative
Evidence
Such ideology therefore constitutes a significant part of describing and explaining how the world is contemporarily perceived to be, underpinning and justifying the way in which the ‘self’ – here ‘the West’ – responds across a variety of levels, both locally and globally, to Muslims and Islam, their perceived problematic presence, and the alleged threat believed to be present. Quite worryingly, and as noted previously, these responses also become both naturally and normatively self-assuring and perpetuating. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 836
Categorization
- XREF: The self-reinforcing, self-assuring loop connects to the reader’s existing notes on ideology naturalising exclusion; echoes Runnymede’s closed-as-binary. — connects to: Collective hypocrisy frames problems to justify oppressive solutions — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 11; Normalization of anti-Muslim ideas produces a morally self-justifying rationalism — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 457; Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 910 (+13 more)
Related
- Normalization of anti-Muslim ideas produces a morally self-justifying rationalism (similarity 0.88)
- Islamophobia is an ideology sustaining negative meaning about Muslims. (similarity 0.86)
- Islamophobia is an ideology, not a set of actions or practices (similarity 0.86)
- Islamophobia comprises ideology, modes of operation, and exclusionary practices (similarity 0.84)
- Islamophobia is best understood as context-dependent plural phenomena (similarity 0.84)
- Islamophobia should be analyzed as power-relations rather than as error about Islam. (similarity 0.84)
- Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism (similarity 0.84)
- Islamophobia operates through shared cultural meaning-making structures that predate any current event (similarity 0.83)
- Islamophobia’s ideological content is sustained by five distinct modes of operation (similarity 0.83)
- Islamophobia need not rest on false beliefs about Islam or Muslims. (similarity 0.82)
- Islamophobia’s meaning is sustained through five named modes of operation. (similarity 0.82)
- Conceptualizing Islamophobia must separate its forms from the phenomenon itself (similarity 0.82)
- Islamophobia is the meaning disseminated about Muslims and Islam rather than any single act (similarity 0.82)
- Islamophobia operates as a racial formation, not merely religious prejudice (similarity 0.82)
- Denying Islamophobia as ideas-criticism enables anti-Muslim feeling disconnected from real Muslims. (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Islamophobic symbolic forms need not be false to function as Othering
#expands(0.82) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 840 - Islamophobia is systemic and institutionalized, not merely individual prejudice
#complicates(0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 641 - Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism
#expands(0.78) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 910 - Islamophobia has material and political causes beyond ignorance or xenophobia
#expands(0.78) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 706 - Islamophobia’s ideological content is sustained by five distinct modes of operation
#expands(0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 902 - Islamophobia is best understood by what it does rather than by defining its boundaries
#expands(0.75) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 178