Tackling Islamophobia is a collective civic duty, not a minority responsibility

Evidence

It is good that British Muslims increasingly challenge Islamophobia. However, to challenge and end Islamophobia and all forms of racism effectively, we all need to confront and condemn it where we see it, and commit to raising awareness in others of its wider effects. Tackling Islamophobia and all forms of racism is not only the responsibility of Muslims or ethnic minorities, but nor is it only the government or the state that must show greater responsibility in tackling it. Employers, neighbours, teachers and fellow citizens must all work to raise awareness and to act to combat racism wherever and however it appears. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 130

Categorization

• XREF: Similar to the reader’s prior material on antiracism as a universal principle (from The Social Control of Impersonal Trust / Communication as Culture themes), and parallels how defining the problem determines who bears responsibility. — connects to: Combating Islamophobia is framed as a collective civic duty beyond government. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 75; Ending Islamophobia is a shared civic duty, not just for Muslims or the state. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 134

Related

• Combating Islamophobia is framed as a collective civic duty beyond government. (similarity 0.95)
• Ending Islamophobia is a shared civic duty, not just for Muslims or the state. (similarity 0.94)
• Combating Islamophobia requires seeing it as interlaced with xenophobia and classism. (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia is best understood and countered as a form of anti-Muslim racism. (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia is one of several challenges British Muslims confront. (similarity 0.80)
• The Runnymede report frames Islamophobia as a call to action for everyone (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Muslim racism is the operationalization of the causal factor Islamophobia (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-racism requires defending all discriminated groups, not only one’s own (similarity 0.79)
• The 1997 Runnymeade Trust report institutionalized ‘Islamophobia’ as a category in British discourse (similarity 0.79)
• Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle (similarity 0.78)
• Four conceptual moves permit the de-racialization of Islamophobia (similarity 0.78)
• Agreeing on a definition of Islamophobia is a precondition for accountability. (similarity 0.78)
• Britain has failed to officially define Islamophobia decades after Runnymede’s report (similarity 0.78)
• Islamophobia study must adopt an explicitly justified normative framework such as multiculturalism (similarity 0.78)