The ‘unfounded hostility’ frame forces interpretive judgments about reasonable criticism.

Evidence

We may all be guilty of sometimes spending ‘far too much time deconstructing the key terms of social debate and far too little time analysing how they function’. Indeed, such an exercise here could be instructive, not least because one of the difficulties with how the CBMI conceived of Islamophobia stems from the notion of an ‘unfounded hostility towards Islam’. Such a notion clearly entails the interpretative task of establishing hostility as — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 34

Categorization

• QUESTION: This foreshadows the problem with the Runnymede definition that the author is about to elaborate - that labelling hostility ‘unfounded’ presumes one can objectively separate reasonable from unreasonable criticism.
• XREF: connects to: Said contests the claim that difference must imply hostility; Anti-Muslim bias is denied legitimacy by framing Muslimness as voluntarily chosen. — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 8; Critics object that Islamophobia misnames fear of Islamist terrorism — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 66 (+1 more)

Related

• Said contests the claim that difference must imply hostility (similarity 0.87)
• Defining Islamophobia as ‘unfounded’ makes its denial subjectively defensible (similarity 0.85)
• Criticism of religious ideas should never be restricted as Islamophobic (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia need not rest on false beliefs about Islam or Muslims. (similarity 0.83)
• Denying Islamophobia as ideas-criticism enables anti-Muslim feeling disconnected from real Muslims. (similarity 0.82)
• The term ‘Islamophobia’ conflates criticism of Islam with hatred of Muslims (similarity 0.81)
• Runnymede’s 1997 Islamophobia framework is a liberal construct defining harm as unfounded hostility (similarity 0.81)
• Anti-Islamophobia analysis should serve as a guide toward reasonable dialogue, not just diagnosis. (similarity 0.81)
• Definitions of Islamophobia double as policy interventions, not neutral analysis (similarity 0.81)
• The 1997 Runnymede definition fused hostility to Islam with discrimination against Muslims (similarity 0.81)
• Focusing only on Muslims cannot redress hostility directed at Islam itself (similarity 0.81)
• The Runnymede model so dominated Islamophobia discourse that it escaped critical scrutiny (similarity 0.80)
• Scholarship on Islamophobia must justify its own normative commitments, not merely critique others’ (similarity 0.80)
• Efforts to define Islam are what define understanding of Islamophobia (similarity 0.80)
• Fighting Islamophobia need not stifle legitimate criticism of Muslims (similarity 0.80)