New racist rhetoric lets far-right groups deny racism while demarcating Muslims

Evidence

The employment of new racist rhetoric and perspectives therefore allows for disclaimers to be made that are initially difficult to refute. One way of seeing through this is to acknowledge that the BnP do not identify or include their Sikh and Hindu partners in what they define to be ‘British’. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 464

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the new-racism concept (anti-Muslim framing as cultural rather than biological threat) that Bleich and Runnymede both theorize differently. — connects to: Targeted minorities resist far-right divide-and-conquer tactics by refusing to disclaim Muslim identity. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 550; Far-right groups strategically recruit Sikhs by differentiating them from Muslims. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 545; Muslims were told anti-Muslim racism cannot exist because Muslims are not a race — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 583 (+9 more)
• DEFINE: Illustrates the mechanism of ‘new racist’ discourse — cultural demarcation that shields the speaker from the racism label.

Related

• Muslims were told anti-Muslim racism cannot exist because Muslims are not a race (similarity 0.85)
• Far-right groups strategically recruit Sikhs by differentiating them from Muslims. (similarity 0.82)
• Targeted minorities resist far-right divide-and-conquer tactics by refusing to disclaim Muslim identity. (similarity 0.81)
• Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia is best understood and countered as a form of anti-Muslim racism. (similarity 0.80)
• Four conceptual moves permit the de-racialization of Islamophobia (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-racist movements often fail to see anti-Muslim bigotry as racism (similarity 0.80)
• Far-right and liberal racisms mutually reinforce each other on a spectrum (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Muslim discrimination should be fought through existing anti-racism frameworks (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia fixates a reified Muslim type despite race’s dynamic nature. (similarity 0.79)
• Framing Islamism as European-rooted ideology shields liberals from racism charges (similarity 0.79)
• Racism scholarship’s biologistic paradigms long excluded anti-Muslim discrimination as unclassifiable (similarity 0.79)
• The far right attributes its own ‘them and us’ framing to Islamic doctrine (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism (similarity 0.79)
• Ideologically rationalized bigotry historically recurs against successive target groups (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Modern racism against Muslims persists through more polite, euphemistic policy language #expands (0.92) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 749
• Liberal Islamophobia is racist and imperialist despite its gentler rhetoric #expands (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 430
• Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle #complicates (0.78) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 159