The Runnymede report reframed anti-Muslim prejudice as faith-based rather than ethnic.

Evidence

In addition, data collected for the 1991 National Census of Population for England and Wales found that Pakistani and Bangladeshi (Muslimmajority) groups were demonstrating higher levels of disadvantage across a number of measures. Such findings increased frustrations over inadequate service provision for Muslims living in Britain. The Muslim Council of Great Britain, established as an umbrella body for mosques and other Islamic organizations, began lobbying for greater religious-group monitoring. In 1997, the Runnymede Trust published findings which supported much of what was suspected among grassroots communities: that Britain’s Muslim groups faced discrimination on the basis of their faith, and that global events were affecting the way Muslims were being perceived. The report – Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All – was one of the first publications to highlight how the way Muslims were both perceiving themselves and being perceived had moved beyond simply ethnicity and racism. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 189

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anchors the Runnymede 1997 report — the very text this reading purpose frames as the definitional baseline — in its empirical context. — connects to: Broadcast journalists frame Islamophobia as racism, unlike centre-right print journalists. — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 73; The report pressed governments to treat religion like race in equality policy — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 745; The 1997 Runnymede report defined Islamophobia as faith-based discrimination beyond ethnicity — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 185 (+2 more)

Related

• The 1997 Runnymede report defined Islamophobia as faith-based discrimination beyond ethnicity (similarity 0.94)
• The Runnymede report introduced Islamophobia as marking Muslim-specific experience beyond shared discrimination. (similarity 0.91)
• The 1997 Runnymede definition fused hostility to Islam with discrimination against Muslims (similarity 0.89)
• The 1994 Runnymede report first acknowledged Islamophobia in British non-Muslim print. (similarity 0.89)
• The Runnymede report classed Islamophobia as racism without defining it as racism (similarity 0.87)
• The Runnymede report defines Islamophobia inconsistently across sentiment, prejudice, and discrimination. (similarity 0.87)
• The Runnymede Trust defines Islamophobia as a form of racism against Muslims (similarity 0.87)
• The term Islamophobia originated in a 1991 Runnymede Trust report (similarity 0.87)
• The Islamophobia concept was born partly from Runnymede’s earlier antisemitism work (similarity 0.86)
• The report’s racial-religious conflation undermines Islamophobia’s distinctiveness as a category (similarity 0.86)
• The linking of Islamophobia with antisemitism predates the 1997 Runnymede report. (similarity 0.86)
• Britain has failed to officially define Islamophobia decades after Runnymede’s report (similarity 0.86)
• The Runnymede report grounded its definition in community consultation and direct visits (similarity 0.86)
• The 1997 report already linked anti-Muslim violence to racialised prejudice (similarity 0.86)
• The Runnymede report frames Islamophobia as a call to action for everyone (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• The 1997 Runnymede report defined Islamophobia as faith-based discrimination beyond ethnicity #corroborates (0.90) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 185
• The Runnymede report introduced Islamophobia as marking Muslim-specific experience beyond shared discrimination. #corroborates (0.85) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 479
• The Islamophobia concept was born partly from Runnymede’s earlier antisemitism work #complicates (0.75) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 692