Positive affection toward Muslims can also essentialize and homogenize them
Evidence
One must first ask why it was felt that such a question could not be addressed. … Whilst initially acknowledging that ’ some British Muslims’ may exacerbate the problem, the question shifts to a much broader and homogenous understanding of how ’ Muslims themselves exacerbate Islamophobia’. To whatever extent this ‘problem’ was subsequently addressed within the Commission leaves one wondering whether the construction of an essentialised Muslim was indeed done so to coerce, overcome or eradicate not only those marginalised and inessentialised Muslims, but also those Muslims who were seen to ‘exacerbate Islamophobia’. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 404 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
A comprehensive tour de force of a present two decades in the making, where seeing Islam and Muslims as the problem is as much an inescapable mood as a pervasive policy. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 7 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Personal contact with Muslims predicts more favorable attitudes toward them — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 400; Individualist happy endings can quietly reinforce anti-Muslim opinion; Peaceful interreligious contact produced positive medieval portrayals of Muslims — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 151 (+17 more)
Broader Connections
- Anti-Muslim sentiment is a pervasive mood and policy
#corroborates(0.95) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 7 - The flip-side image of Muslim-as-friend is equally coercive and nuance-blind as enmity
#corroborates(0.95) - The essentialised Muslim construct may function to silence marginal Muslims
#corroborates(0.95) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 404 - Personal contact with Muslims substantially reduces anti-Muslim sentiment across party lines
#complicates(0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 846 - Avoiding physical closeness to Muslims is treated as a measurable component of intergroup anxiety
#complicates(0.85) — Patricia Hopkins, Developing an Intergroup Anxiety toward…, 1272 - Being labeled a ‘good’ Muslim does not shield Muslims from prejudice
#complicates(0.85) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 400 - Conversionist love of Muslims coexisted with desire for Islam’s destruction
#complicates(0.75) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 162 - Experiencing unconditional love can break the grip of conditional religious belonging
#complicates(0.75) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 373 - Sharia ties moral judgment to embodied relationships rather than an inaccessible conscience
#complicates(0.75) - Emotional stability predicts anti-Muslim affect but not cognitive prejudice.
#complicates(0.75) — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims, 75 - Negative feelings toward Muslims exceed those toward other immigrant groups
#complicates(0.75) - Muslim Americans alter their behavior to preemptively prove their loyalty
#complicates(0.75) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 447 - Muslim characters can break stereotype when faith is incidental to personality
#complicates(0.75) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 537 - Combating Islamophobia requires interfaith communication, diversity and open debate
#complicates(0.75) — Muhammad Asad Latif, The Identity of Religion Always Comes Up, 141 - Muslim inclusion in American civic life comes at the price of disciplined loyalty
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