The state exploits public insecurity to legitimize Islamophobia.
Evidence
In a climate of normalized anti-Muslim racism, Prevent is only one example of the ways in which the state has been able to build on public insecurities to give false legitimacy to Islamophobia. To genuinely address the issues at hand, a change of direction is urgently needed. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 441
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: State-sponsored Islamophobia enforces the presumption linking Muslims to terrorism.; State policies authorizing suspicion are the cornerstone of dialectical Islamophobia — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 136; Islamophobia is produced by state action, not only cultural bias (+14 more)
Related
- Islamophobia is produced by state action, not only cultural bias (similarity 0.89)
- Islamophobia is driven by state violence rather than mere ignorance (similarity 0.86)
- The state perpetuates Islam-violence associations to justify expanding its authority (similarity 0.86)
- Islamophobia is a state-authorized system, not merely private prejudice (similarity 0.86)
- State rhetoric authorizes ordinary people to persecute Muslims (similarity 0.85)
- State policies authorizing suspicion are the cornerstone of dialectical Islamophobia (similarity 0.85)
- Structural Islamophobia operates through laws and policies that presume Muslims threaten national security (similarity 0.85)
- Prevent is a racist, Islamophobic state policy causing concrete harms (similarity 0.84)
- Reducing Islamophobia to private bigotry ignores state-enforced discrimination (similarity 0.84)
- Islamophobia adapts to each society’s own governing concerns (similarity 0.84)
- Anti-Shari’a bills converted private Islamophobia into state structural policy (similarity 0.84)
- Islamophobia is systemic and institutionalized, not merely individual prejudice (similarity 0.84)
- State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies (similarity 0.83)
- State repression, not just culture, sustained American Islamophobia (similarity 0.83)
- Vague state anti-terror cues make citizens rely on stereotypes to profile Muslims (similarity 0.83)
Broader Connections
- State-sponsored Islamophobia enforces the presumption linking Muslims to terrorism.
#expands(0.90) - Islamophobia is produced by state action, not only cultural bias
#expands(0.90) - State policies authorizing suspicion are the cornerstone of dialectical Islamophobia
#expands(0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 136 - Islamophobia is driven by state violence rather than mere ignorance
#expands(0.85) - State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies
#expands(0.85) - Islamophobia is a state-authorized system, not merely private prejudice
#expands(0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 82 - State repression, not just culture, sustained American Islamophobia
#corroborates(0.85) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 344 - Structural Islamophobia operates through laws and policies that presume Muslims threaten national security
#expands(0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 123 - Prevent is a racist, Islamophobic state policy causing concrete harms
#exemplifies(0.80) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 426 - The state perpetuates Islam-violence associations to justify expanding its authority
#expands(0.80) - Anti-Shari’a bills converted private Islamophobia into state structural policy
#exemplifies(0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 306 - State rhetoric authorizes ordinary people to persecute Muslims
#expands(0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 342 - Islamophobia is transmitted through state-polity dialogue via law and rhetoric
#expands(0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 83 - Islamophobia undermines democracy by manufacturing fear and manufactured consent.
#expands(0.75) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 635 - Perceiving Muslims as disloyal shifts the policy frame from anti-discrimination to securitization.
#expands(0.75)