Miles and Brown argue anti-Muslim phenomena fit existing racism and xenophobia theories
Evidence
Whilst Halliday argues that Islamophobia is inappropriate because of the foci, Miles and Brown suggest that ‘Islamophobia’ might only be appropriate where a specific and identifiable hatred of the theology of Islam is in evidence. Whilst seemingly arguing the same as Halliday albeit from an alternative perspective, Miles and Brown argue that there is no need for any separation of identifying, defining or conceptualising ‘anti-Muslimism’ as this can be incorporated and framed within existing theories of racism or xenophobia, in similarity of anti-immigrant phenomena. For both Halliday and Miles and Brown, it is the linguistic meaning of the name that neither adequately defines nor allows understanding of what the phenomenon is, thus rendering it misleading and inappropriate. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 687
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Anti-Muslim discrimination should be fought through existing anti-racism frameworks — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 58; Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 159; Anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim attitudes are distinct but overlapping targets of prejudice (+7 more)
Related
- Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism (similarity 0.87)
- Anti-Muslim discrimination should be fought through existing anti-racism frameworks (similarity 0.86)
- Islamophobia is best understood and countered as a form of anti-Muslim racism. (similarity 0.85)
- Anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim attitudes are distinct but overlapping targets of prejudice (similarity 0.85)
- Racism scholarship’s biologistic paradigms long excluded anti-Muslim discrimination as unclassifiable (similarity 0.84)
- Mainstream anti-Islamophobia defense framed bias as cultural misunderstanding, not racism (similarity 0.84)
- Islamophobia operates as a racial formation, not merely religious prejudice (similarity 0.84)
- Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle (similarity 0.84)
- Islamophobia is an ideology sustaining negative meaning about Muslims. (similarity 0.84)
- Muslims were told anti-Muslim racism cannot exist because Muslims are not a race (similarity 0.84)
- Evidence of anti-Muslim incidents has not convinced many of Islamophobia as a distinct phenomenon (similarity 0.83)
- Anti-Muslim sentiment terminology mirrors the older, unresolved antisemitism debates about racism vs. religious prejudice. (similarity 0.83)
- Anti-Islamophobia must not become the sole analytical frame for studying Western Muslims (similarity 0.83)
- Anti-racist movements often fail to see anti-Muslim bigotry as racism (similarity 0.83)
- Islamophobia is rarely analyzed through the lens of race and racism. (similarity 0.83)
Broader Connections
- Islamophobia is increasingly theorized as a form of racism rather than mere religious prejudice
#corroborates(0.90) - Anti-Muslim discrimination should be fought through existing anti-racism frameworks
#expands(0.85) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 58 - Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism
#corroborates(0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 910 - Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle
#expands(0.80) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 159 - Evidence of anti-Muslim incidents has not convinced many of Islamophobia as a distinct phenomenon
#contradicts(0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 660 - Mainstream race-equality bodies resisted framing Islamophobia as a racial issue
#contradicts(0.80) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 753 - Racism has empirical grounding that Islamophobia still lacks
#contradicts(0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 789 - Anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim attitudes are distinct but overlapping targets of prejudice
#qualifies(0.75) - Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics
#complicates(0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119 - Hostility to British Muslims predates modern biological racism and parallels antisemitism
#qualifies(0.75) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 167