The Runnymede report classed Islamophobia as racism without defining it as racism

Evidence

The inclusion of Islamophobia is to some extent puzzling because whilst identified as a form of racism, the report overlooked all other forms of racism including those based upon markers of ‘race’ or skin colour. Interestingly, Islamophobia was neither defined as a form of racism in the report nor was it in the Islamophobia Report that followed a couple of years later. nonetheless, the report did acknowledge similarities between anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in that there was ‘a strong religious component in both kinds of hostility’. In comparing both phenomena under the heading of racism, the report sought to highlight likenesses between religious and race-based discriminations. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 264

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A definitional crux for the whole field: classifying Islamophobia under ‘racism’ while leaving it undefined — the political act of naming precedes (and here substitutes for) conceptual precision, which is exactly the Runnymede-vs-Bleich tension the reader is mapping.
• QUESTION: Does the report’s slippage — treating Islamophobia as racism without defining it as such — mark the origin of the later ‘racialization’ turn (2017) that explicitly redefined anti-Muslim hatred as racism? Worth tracing whether 1994-1997 already gestures toward it.
• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s purpose: this shows Runnymede’s early conceptual indeterminacy, the very target of Halliday’s ‘anti-Muslimism’ terminological critique. — connects to: Britain has failed to officially define Islamophobia decades after Runnymede’s report — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 36; The Runnymede Trust defines Islamophobia as a form of racism against Muslims — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 53; Runnymede’s 1997 Islamophobia framework is a liberal construct defining harm as unfounded hostility — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 715 (+16 more)

Related

• The Runnymede Trust defines Islamophobia as a form of racism against Muslims (similarity 0.93)
• The 1997 Runnymede definition fused hostility to Islam with discrimination against Muslims (similarity 0.93)
• The Runnymede report defines Islamophobia inconsistently across sentiment, prejudice, and discrimination. (similarity 0.93)
• The 1997 Runnymede report defined Islamophobia as faith-based discrimination beyond ethnicity (similarity 0.92)
• The report’s racial-religious conflation undermines Islamophobia’s distinctiveness as a category (similarity 0.92)
• The Runnymede report introduced Islamophobia as marking Muslim-specific experience beyond shared discrimination. (similarity 0.92)
• The Runnymede model so dominated Islamophobia discourse that it escaped critical scrutiny (similarity 0.91)
• Runnymede’s 1997 definition founded but did not fix the field’s usage (similarity 0.91)
• The Runnymede Report redefined Islamophobia around closed views of Islam (similarity 0.91)
• Runnymede redirects the term’s focus toward discrimination and exclusion (similarity 0.90)
• Islamophobia is best understood and countered as a form of anti-Muslim racism. (similarity 0.90)
• Runnymede’s 1997 Islamophobia framework is a liberal construct defining harm as unfounded hostility (similarity 0.90)
• The Runnymede Trust acknowledged Islamophobia as racism in 1994 (similarity 0.90)
• Runnymede defines Islamophobia as closed views of Islam (similarity 0.90)
• Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle (similarity 0.90)

Broader Connections

• The Runnymede Report redefined Islamophobia around closed views of Islam #expands (0.88) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 348
• The report’s racial-religious conflation undermines Islamophobia’s distinctiveness as a category #qualifies (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 384
• Islamophobia is defined as anti-Muslim racism, not merely fear or dislike #expands (0.80) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 48