The Copenhagen Declaration treated Islamophobia as self-evidently known without defining it

Evidence

Largely as a response to the furore following the publication of a series of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad printed in the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper on 30 September 2005 followed by numerous other news outlets across europe and elsewhere, the conference brought together 150 participants, a live audience of around 1,000 people, and a broadcast audience of thousands more across europe and north and west Africa. Arguing that all the participants were united by ‘a deep concern about the growing phenomenon of Islamophobia – the demonization of human beings for no other reason than their Muslim faith’ – the Declaration set out the following seven recommendations: — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 91

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows a major institutional document using Islamophobia as an assumed term — the exact kind of ‘definition as political act’ the reader is charting.
• XREF: connects to: The UN recognized Islamophobia in 2001 without ever defining it; Even the UN’s recognition of Islamophobia came without a definition — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 84; Across EU states in 2001 no operable consensus definition of Islamophobia existed — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 675 (+3 more)

Related

• The UN recognized Islamophobia in 2001 without ever defining it (similarity 0.93)
• Even the UN’s recognition of Islamophobia came without a definition (similarity 0.88)
• Across EU states in 2001 no operable consensus definition of Islamophobia existed (similarity 0.87)
• Anti-Islamophobia measures failed to define the term and conflated distinct discourses (similarity 0.85)
• Britain has failed to officially define Islamophobia decades after Runnymede’s report (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia as a concept never reached everyday popular discourse. (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia’s contestation stems from a failure to define or conceptualise it. (similarity 0.80)
• Efforts to define Islam are what define understanding of Islamophobia (similarity 0.80)
• Runnymede’s 1997 definition founded but did not fix the field’s usage (similarity 0.80)
• Even the report’s own authors lacked clarity about what Islamophobia is. (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia centers on recognition of Muslim-ness and its ideological meaning (similarity 0.79)
• Defining Islamophobia as ‘unfounded’ makes its denial subjectively defensible (similarity 0.79)
• An acknowledged Muslim or Islamic element is the defining criterion of Islamophobia (similarity 0.79)
• Poor evidence plus subjective definitions make Islamophobia easy to dismiss (similarity 0.79)
• Definitions of Islamophobia double as policy interventions, not neutral analysis (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Even the UN’s recognition of Islamophobia came without a definition #corroborates (0.95) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 84
• Islamophobia’s contestation stems from a failure to define or conceptualise it. #expands (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 913
• Anti-Islamophobia measures failed to define the term and conflated distinct discourses #corroborates (0.82) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 100
• Across EU states in 2001 no operable consensus definition of Islamophobia existed #corroborates (0.72) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 675
• The Runnymede report classed Islamophobia as racism without defining it as racism #exemplifies (0.72) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 264