The founding Commission’s very name was disputed from its first meeting.

Evidence

It was in May 1996 that the first meeting took place of, as it was at that time called, the Runnymede Trust Commission on Islamophobia. From the outset there was a lively and lengthy discussion about the terms of reference for the commission, starting with its proposed name. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 720

Categorization

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• The 1997 Runnymede Commission introduced, not invented, the term Islamophobia. (similarity 0.85)
• Runnymede Trust established the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia in 1996 (similarity 0.83)
• The term Islamophobia entered policy prominence through Runnymede’s 1997 report. (similarity 0.82)
• The Runnymede Trust popularized the term Islamophobia in 1997. (similarity 0.81)
• The Runnymede Trust’s founding paradigm was colour-based race relations, not religion. (similarity 0.81)
• The Islamophobia concept was born partly from Runnymede’s earlier antisemitism work (similarity 0.80)
• Runnymede’s 1997 definition founded but did not fix the field’s usage (similarity 0.79)
• The Runnymede Trust acknowledged Islamophobia as racism in 1994 (similarity 0.79)
• The 1997 Runnymede Commission already distinguished open from closed views of Islam. (similarity 0.79)
• The linking of Islamophobia with antisemitism predates the 1997 Runnymede report. (similarity 0.78)