Mainstream race-equality bodies resisted framing Islamophobia as a racial issue

Evidence

Race equality organizations did not comment formally on this recommendation, let alone make any attempt to implement it. Instead, they put their weight behind moves to define Islamophobia as nothing more than ‘discrimination on grounds of religion or belief’. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 753

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to the contested definitional debate in the Foundations module: this documents how the anti-Muslim-racism/racialization framing lost ground institutionally to a religious-discrimination framing.
• XREF: Connects to the module’s contest between Runnymede’s racialization turn and the narrower ‘discrimination on grounds of religion or belief’ definition. — connects to: Muslim groups embraced the report while race-equality institutions ignored it — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 742; The report pressed governments to treat religion like race in equality policy — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 745; Mainstream race-equality groups narrowed Islamophobia to mere religious discrimination — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 748 (+11 more)

Related

• Mainstream race-equality groups narrowed Islamophobia to mere religious discrimination (similarity 0.94)
• Mainstream anti-Islamophobia defense framed bias as cultural misunderstanding, not racism (similarity 0.91)
• Muslim groups embraced the report while race-equality institutions ignored it (similarity 0.90)
• Anti-racist orgs once treated religion as a separate axis from race. (similarity 0.90)
• Anti-racist organizations historically avoided treating religion as within their remit (similarity 0.90)
• The report pressed governments to treat religion like race in equality policy (similarity 0.87)
• Trustees resisted an Islamophobia commission as a radical break from the colour-based race paradigm. (similarity 0.86)
• Islamophobia is best understood and countered as a form of anti-Muslim racism. (similarity 0.86)
• The report’s racial-religious conflation undermines Islamophobia’s distinctiveness as a category (similarity 0.86)
• Anti-Muslim discrimination should be fought through existing anti-racism frameworks (similarity 0.86)
• The commission’s Islamophobia work left the race relations paradigm untouched (similarity 0.85)
• The Runnymede report classed Islamophobia as racism without defining it as racism (similarity 0.85)
• Four conceptual moves permit the de-racialization of Islamophobia (similarity 0.85)
• Muslims were told anti-Muslim racism cannot exist because Muslims are not a race (similarity 0.85)
• Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Mainstream race-equality groups narrowed Islamophobia to mere religious discrimination #corroborates (0.95) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 748
• Four conceptual moves permit the de-racialization of Islamophobia #expands (0.80) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 165
• Interpreting Islamophobia solely as cultural racism essentialises and reduces the faith #corroborates (0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 773