Liberal and far-right Islamophobia converge on gender rights claims against Muslim culture

Evidence

The issue of gender rights notably brings together Islamophobia from across the political spectrum, including both its far-right and its liberal forms. Liberal Islamophobia assumes that Muslim communities and ‘culture’ are inherently against certain liberal values (which are frequently seen as the exclusive preserve of the ‘west’) such as democracy, human rights, free speech, and gender and sexual equality (Mondon and Winter 2017). This narrative is also reflected in far-right anti-Islam sentiments. In his infamous appearance on the BBC’s Question Time in 2009, for example, Nick Griffin, then leader of the British National Party, suggested that Islam did not fit in with British society because of its views on women, among other things (BBC News 2009). — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 560

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the key concept of ‘liberal Islamophobia’ and shows its convergence with far-right anti-Islam rhetoric on gender.
• XREF: Connects to Runnymede’s 2017 racialization turn and the definitional debate over whether Islamophobia spans liberal and far-right forms. — connects to: Gendered Islamophobia assigns opposite tropes to Muslim women and men — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1244; Islamophobic stereotypes of Muslims form a closed gendered loop. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 487; Islamophobia flourishes on both the nativist right and among self-proclaimed liberals — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 689 (+16 more)
• ADDENDUM: Relates to the ‘immodesty/moral panic’ dynamics of the dress-veil debates, paralleling the class/identity signaling in the modesty article.

Related

• Islamophobic stereotypes of Muslims form a closed gendered loop. (similarity 0.85)
• Islamophobia flourishes on both the nativist right and among self-proclaimed liberals (similarity 0.85)
• Gendered stereotypes of Muslim men and women are formed in relation to each other. (similarity 0.85)
• Gendered Islamophobia names discrimination targeting Muslim women (similarity 0.84)
• Neoconservative discourse exploits women’s rights to mark Islam as foreign. (similarity 0.83)
• Analyzing Muslim women through Islamophobic tropes is inconsistent with genuine feminism. (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia spans liberal and conservative mainstreams, not just the fringe right (similarity 0.83)
• Culturalist framing of Islam enables respectable liberal Islamophobia (similarity 0.83)
• Liberal and conservative Islamophobia jointly enable far-right conspiracy theories (similarity 0.82)
• Gendered Muslim stereotypes are mutually constitutive and deny both sexes agency. (similarity 0.82)
• Recourse to Muslim culture masks Islamophobia while homogenizing all Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia fuses religious bigotry, racism, and gender stereotypes (similarity 0.82)
• Gendered Islamophobia assigns opposite tropes to Muslim women and men (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia includes polite liberal variants, not only conservative conspiracy theories (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia is defined differently by scholars, spanning fear, media violence, racism, gender, and nationalism. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Islamophobia flourishes on both the nativist right and among self-proclaimed liberals #expands (0.90) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 689
• Gendered Islamophobia imposes the most distorted stereotypes on veiled Muslim women. #expands (0.90)
• Gendered Islamophobia assigns opposite tropes to Muslim women and men #expands (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1244
• Islamophobic stereotypes of Muslims form a closed gendered loop. #expands (0.85) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 487
• Gendered Islamophobia names discrimination targeting Muslim women #expands (0.85)
• Gendered stereotypes of Muslim men and women are formed in relation to each other. #expands (0.85) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 554
• Gendered Islamophobia intersects feminist, antiracist, and neoconservative agendas simultaneously. #expands (0.80)
• Muslim women’s gender inequality is inseparable from anti-Muslim racism #expands (0.80) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 581
• Liberal Islamophobia is racist and imperialist despite its gentler rhetoric #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 430
• Right-wing Islamophobes are structurally embedded rather than marginal figures #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 34
• Islamophobia has material and political causes beyond ignorance or xenophobia #expands (0.80) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 706
• Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle #expands (0.75) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 159
• Analyzing Muslim women through Islamophobic tropes is inconsistent with genuine feminism. #complicates (0.75) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 584
• Culturalist framing of Islam enables respectable liberal Islamophobia #complicates (0.70) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 167
• Islamophobia is increasingly theorized as a form of racism rather than mere religious prejudice #expands (0.70)