Suspicion of Britain’s Muslims predates modern biological racism

Evidence

As Nasar Meer (2013) has powerfully argued, the Muslim presence in Britain has long been seen as unwelcome and problematic – a perception predating, in fact, modern ideas of biological racism and running in parallel with long historical antisemitic antecedents, which have pathologized and persecuted religious difference marked through descent, ‘race’ and ‘culture’. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 162

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reader’s curated work on antisemitism and the long history of ‘religious difference marked through descent’ — echoes the jihad/antisemitism comparison thread. — connects to: Hostility to British Muslims predates modern biological racism and parallels antisemitism — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 167; The Muslim threat was framed as infesting Britain’s body and values — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 237; Islamophobia is increasingly theorized as a form of racism rather than mere religious prejudice (+3 more)

Related

• Hostility to British Muslims predates modern biological racism and parallels antisemitism (similarity 0.93)
• A worldwide Muslim threat narrative came to frame British perceptions (similarity 0.86)
• The Muslim threat was framed as infesting Britain’s body and values (similarity 0.85)
• British Muslims were ethnicized before being recognized as a faith group (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobia is one of several challenges British Muslims confront. (similarity 0.84)
• Britain first recognized Muslims only through the lens of fundamentalism (similarity 0.83)
• Racism scholarship’s biologistic paradigms long excluded anti-Muslim discrimination as unclassifiable (similarity 0.82)
• Religious and ethnic disadvantages in Britain must be separated analytically to explain Muslim outcomes. (similarity 0.82)
• Religious identity grew more salient than ethnicity among later-generation British Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• Miles and Brown argue anti-Muslim phenomena fit existing racism and xenophobia theories (similarity 0.81)
• Anti-mosque sentiment reflects anxiety about Muslim bodies being physically close to whites (similarity 0.81)
• Muslim identity functions as a civic marker rather than mere religious belief. (similarity 0.81)
• British racial categories for Muslims changed labels while retaining racist content. (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia is rarely analyzed through the lens of race and racism. (similarity 0.81)
• The racialized content of the Muslim category persisted across changing labels (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The racialized content of the Muslim category persisted across changing labels #expands (0.82) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 163
• A worldwide Muslim threat narrative came to frame British perceptions #expands (0.80)
• The Muslim threat was framed as infesting Britain’s body and values #corroborates (0.78) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 237
• Muslim religious identity becomes a racial category through surveillance. #expands (0.78)
• Islamophobia is increasingly theorized as a form of racism rather than mere religious prejudice #expands (0.75)