The Muslim threat was framed as infesting Britain’s body and values

Evidence

The worldwide Muslim threat that had already gained significant resonance in the West had now infested the body of Britain and its values, indeterminably and increasingly framing the lens through which Muslims and Islam were being seen. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 237

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: British press blame for radicalization shifted toward extremist Islam itself — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 640; Muslim population growth in Britain matched expected demography yet the press framed it alarmingly. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 209; Official UK integration strategy framed Muslims as a threat to national cohesion — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 451 (+7 more)

Related

• A worldwide Muslim threat narrative came to frame British perceptions (similarity 0.96)
• Islamophobia is one of several challenges British Muslims confront. (similarity 0.86)
• UK integration discourse framed Muslims as demographic threats to national existence (similarity 0.85)
• Suspicion of Britain’s Muslims predates modern biological racism (similarity 0.85)
• British press blame for radicalization shifted toward extremist Islam itself (similarity 0.84)
• Official UK integration strategy framed Muslims as a threat to national cohesion (similarity 0.84)
• Domesticating the Muslim threat made it feel closer and more dangerous (similarity 0.83)
• Muslim population growth in Britain matched expected demography yet the press framed it alarmingly. (similarity 0.83)
• Radicalization anxieties drive integration discourse despite Muslims being integrated. (similarity 0.83)
• Muslim self-identification and British misperception drove border conflicts (similarity 0.82)
• Britain first recognized Muslims only through the lens of fundamentalism (similarity 0.82)
• British Muslims were reduced to terrorists or apologists, collapsing into one stereotype. (similarity 0.82)
• British official dossier linked its own foreign policy to Muslim radicalization (similarity 0.82)
• British Muslims were first publicly recognised through a fundamentalist lens. (similarity 0.81)
• Americans and Britons alike viewed Islam as inherently expansionist and violent. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• British colonial ideology consolidated the essentialized idea of Islam as a homogeneous threat #corroborates (0.85)
• Both Americans and Britons held Islam a perennial menace by its proselytizing and violence #corroborates (0.80)