The Runnymede Trust popularized the term Islamophobia in 1997.

Evidence

The term “Islamophobia” was popularized in a 1997 report by a British think tank, the Runnymede Trust, drawing attention to this form of prejudice as a serious social problem. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 26

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Etymology of the key analytic term — pins down where the word entered discourse.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what exact definition did the Runnymede report give, and did it specify fear as the operative emotion?

Related

• The term Islamophobia entered policy prominence through Runnymede’s 1997 report. (similarity 0.92)
• Runnymede’s 1997 definition founded but did not fix the field’s usage (similarity 0.90)
• Runnymede redirects the term’s focus toward discrimination and exclusion (similarity 0.88)
• The 1997 Runnymede Commission introduced, not invented, the term Islamophobia. (similarity 0.87)
• The Runnymede Report redefined Islamophobia around closed views of Islam (similarity 0.87)
• Definitions of Islamophobia double as policy interventions, not neutral analysis (similarity 0.87)
• The 1997 Runnymede definition fused hostility to Islam with discrimination against Muslims (similarity 0.87)
• The Runnymede report classed Islamophobia as racism without defining it as racism (similarity 0.87)
• Islamophobia resists fixed definition due to conceptual stretching over time. (similarity 0.87)
• The Runnymede report defines Islamophobia inconsistently across sentiment, prejudice, and discrimination. (similarity 0.87)
• The Runnymede Report’s definition shifted within its own pages toward closed views (similarity 0.86)
• The Runnymede Report’s definition of Islamophobia shifted and changed within its own pages. (similarity 0.86)
• The term Islamophobia originated in a 1991 Runnymede Trust report (similarity 0.86)
• The Runnymede model so dominated Islamophobia discourse that it escaped critical scrutiny (similarity 0.86)
• The Islamophobia definition is a policy instrument, not merely analysis (similarity 0.86)