Policy documents omitting Islamophobia are disingenuous given pervasive anti-Islam discourse

Evidence

It seems to me circuitous and disingenuous to omit Islamophobia from explicit mention in such formats: much more so when the wider context of negative associations centring on ‘Islam’ and ‘Islamic’ is taken into consideration. Anti-Muslim hatred cannot be divorced from the pervasiveness of anti-Islam discourses, in our print media and as explanations for radicalization in our political discourse. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 640

Categorization

• XREF: This comment preserves the speaker’s ‘Islamophobia’ terminology against the policy turn to ‘anti-Muslim hatred’ — the reader can map this as the pro-Islamophobia camp responding to the racialization shift of the 2017 report. — connects to: Defining Islamophobia as ‘unfounded’ makes its denial subjectively defensible — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 657; the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”

Related

• Definitions of Islamophobia double as policy interventions, not neutral analysis (similarity 0.82)
• Poor evidence plus subjective definitions make Islamophobia easy to dismiss (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia functions as an indiscriminate umbrella term serving varied agendas (similarity 0.81)
• The Islamophobia definition is a policy instrument, not merely analysis (similarity 0.81)
• Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle (similarity 0.81)
• The Runnymede model so dominated Islamophobia discourse that it escaped critical scrutiny (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia terminology helps civil society address both causes and effects (similarity 0.80)
• Established definitions of Islamophobia resist replacement despite their inadequacy (similarity 0.80)
• Definitions of Islamophobia are political instruments tied to policy responses (similarity 0.80)
• The report’s racial-religious conflation undermines Islamophobia’s distinctiveness as a category (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia is an ideology sustaining negative meaning about Muslims. (similarity 0.80)
• The term Islamophobia entered policy prominence through Runnymede’s 1997 report. (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia is best understood and countered as a form of anti-Muslim racism. (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia is an ideology, not a set of actions or practices (similarity 0.79)
• The Runnymede report defines Islamophobia inconsistently across sentiment, prejudice, and discrimination. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Defining Islamophobia as ‘unfounded’ makes its denial subjectively defensible #expands (0.72) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 657