The Commission’s interfaith ethos shaped and constrained the final report’s thinking

Evidence

A legitimate criticism that has been posited about the Commission and its membership criteria is that it was established primarily along the lines of interfaith dialogue, something that may have had a detrimental effect on the thinking and shaping of the ideas and thoughts that emerged in the final report. With the Commission having adopted an ethos of interfaith rather than anti-racism those voices that existed outside of the orthodox mainstream of particular faith groups became – inadvertently or otherwise – excluded. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 266

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks to how construction of the definitional apparatus itself was a political act — the reader’s stated interest in definition-as-politics. — connects to: The commission avoided internal Muslim community conflicts and their public-duty implications — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 754; The Islamophobia Commission’s interfaith framing silently excluded non-mainstream Muslim voices — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 266

Related

• The Islamophobia Commission’s interfaith framing silently excluded non-mainstream Muslim voices (similarity 0.91)
• The commission avoided internal Muslim community conflicts and their public-duty implications (similarity 0.85)
• The commission’s Islamophobia work left the race relations paradigm untouched (similarity 0.83)
• Commission membership selection may have privileged mainstream credibility over contribution. (similarity 0.82)
• The Runnymede Commission deliberately avoided Muslim self-scrutiny (similarity 0.81)
• Muslim groups embraced the report while race-equality institutions ignored it (similarity 0.80)
• The 1997 Runnymede Commission already distinguished open from closed views of Islam. (similarity 0.79)
• Trustees resisted an Islamophobia commission as a radical break from the colour-based race paradigm. (similarity 0.79)
• Runnymede’s core aim is countering monolith views of Islam (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-racist organizations historically avoided treating religion as within their remit (similarity 0.79)
• Mainstream race-equality groups narrowed Islamophobia to mere religious discrimination (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The Islamophobia Commission’s interfaith framing silently excluded non-mainstream Muslim voices #expands (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 266