The Runnymede consultation paper circulated widely across institutions and Muslim organisations

Evidence

In February 1997 the Commission produced a consultation paper entitled Islamophobia its features and dangers. Over 3,500 copies of this were distributed to county councils and metropolitan authorities, police forces, government departments, race equality councils, a wide range of Muslim organisations and a number of leading professional associations, universities, unions and think-tanks. There was widespread media interest. — Runnymede Trust, Islamophobia, 46

Categorization

• XREF: The breadth of this 1997 dissemination helps explain why the Runnymede definition became the dominant one through 2017. — connects to: Runnymede constructed its evidence through consultation and community visits; The Runnymede report introduced Islamophobia as marking Muslim-specific experience beyond shared discrimination. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 479; The 1997 consultation paper reached over 3,500 institutions (+2 more)

Related

• The 1997 consultation paper reached over 3,500 institutions (similarity 0.97)
• Runnymede constructed its evidence through consultation and community visits (similarity 0.92)
• Runnymede gathered evidence through consultation documents and visits to Muslim communities (similarity 0.89)
• The Runnymede report grounded its definition in community consultation and direct visits (similarity 0.88)
• The Runnymede report introduced Islamophobia as marking Muslim-specific experience beyond shared discrimination. (similarity 0.84)
• The Runnymede report frames Islamophobia as a call to action for everyone (similarity 0.84)
• The Runnymede Trust popularized the term Islamophobia in 1997. (similarity 0.83)
• The Runnymede report reframed anti-Muslim prejudice as faith-based rather than ethnic. (similarity 0.83)
• The term Islamophobia entered policy prominence through Runnymede’s 1997 report. (similarity 0.83)
• The Runnymede Report gained authority despite being a non-academic policy document (similarity 0.83)
• The 1997 Runnymede report defined Islamophobia as faith-based discrimination beyond ethnicity (similarity 0.82)
• The 1994 Runnymede report first acknowledged Islamophobia in British non-Muslim print. (similarity 0.82)
• The Runnymede report yielded sixty recommendations, many later implemented (similarity 0.82)
• Runnymede’s 1997 definition founded but did not fix the field’s usage (similarity 0.81)
• Runnymede’s core aim is countering monolith views of Islam (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Runnymede gathered evidence through consultation documents and visits to Muslim communities #expands (0.90) — Runnymede Trust, Islamophobia, 48