The Runnymede Trust’s founding paradigm was colour-based race relations, not religion.

Evidence

The Runnymede Trust was founded in 1968. Up until about 1992 the dominant terms in Runnymede’s discourse were ‘race’, ‘race relations’ and ‘colour’ – the Trust’s work reflected, that is to say, the conceptual consensus established by the Race Relations Acts of the 1960s and 1976. The dominant discourse portrayed everyone as either white or coloured – or, according to the terminology developed in the eighties, white or black (later, since about 1998, white or BME – Black and minority ethnic). The worldview reflected in this language was derived in part from the United States and in part from Britain’s experience as a colonial power. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 725

Categorization

• XREF: Establishes the baseline paradigm the Islamophobia commission broke from — essential for the racialization-era narrative the reader tracks. — connects to: The Runnymede Trust acknowledged Islamophobia as racism in 1994 — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 75; The Runnymede Trust originated Islamophobia as a concept via its anti-Semitism report — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 263; The Runnymede Trust popularized the term Islamophobia in 1997. (+1 more)

Related

• The Runnymede Trust acknowledged Islamophobia as racism in 1994 (similarity 0.91)
• British anti-racism discourse centred on colour until the early 1990s (similarity 0.89)
• Trustees resisted an Islamophobia commission as a radical break from the colour-based race paradigm. (similarity 0.89)
• The term Islamophobia originated in a 1991 Runnymede Trust report (similarity 0.88)
• Two decades of advocacy left the dominant race relations paradigm untouched (similarity 0.88)
• The Runnymede report classed Islamophobia as racism without defining it as racism (similarity 0.88)
• The Islamophobia concept was born partly from Runnymede’s earlier antisemitism work (similarity 0.87)
• Runnymede redirects the term’s focus toward discrimination and exclusion (similarity 0.87)
• The Runnymede Trust originated Islamophobia as a concept via its anti-Semitism report (similarity 0.86)
• The 1997 Runnymede report defined Islamophobia as faith-based discrimination beyond ethnicity (similarity 0.86)
• The Runnymede Trust defines Islamophobia as a form of racism against Muslims (similarity 0.86)
• The 1994 Runnymede report first acknowledged Islamophobia in British non-Muslim print. (similarity 0.86)
• The linking of Islamophobia with antisemitism predates the 1997 Runnymede report. (similarity 0.86)
• Islamophobia as a term originally means unfounded hostility toward Islam, not structural racism. (similarity 0.86)
• Separating Islamophobia as ideology from racism undermines anti-racist struggle (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• The Runnymede Trust acknowledged Islamophobia as racism in 1994 #qualifies (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 75
• The Runnymede Trust originated Islamophobia as a concept via its anti-Semitism report #contradicts (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 263
• The Runnymede Trust popularized the term Islamophobia in 1997. #complicates (0.80)