The term Islamophobia was nearly absent from the British press during 1998–2003.

Evidence

In their analysis of a corpus of 200,037 articles, or 146 million words, on the representation of Islam and Muslims in the British national newspapers between 1998 (a year after the publication of the Runnymede report) and 2009, Baker et al. (2013) find no mention of the term ‘Islamophobia’ in the period 1998–2003. Islamophobia makes its first appearance in the corpus in 2004, reappearing in 2005 and 2006, the first of these denoting the publication of the follow-up report, before falling off the radar, while terms such as ‘discrimination’ and ‘diversity’ becoming more notable among ‘hate and tolerance’ keywords. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 616

Categorization

• CANDY: An interesting tidbit: the term coined in 1997 essentially vanished from British newspapers for six years, only to emerge around the follow-up report.
• XREF: connects to: Yearly Islamophobia mentions in the British press nearly doubled after 2010 — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 616; Islamophobia usage rose in British press while sarcastic or denying uses halved — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 615; Discussion of Islamophobia in British media increased and grew more serious over time. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 620

Related

• Yearly Islamophobia mentions in the British press nearly doubled after 2010 (similarity 0.92)
• Discussion of Islamophobia in British media increased and grew more serious over time. (similarity 0.91)
• Islamophobia usage rose in British press while sarcastic or denying uses halved (similarity 0.90)
• The term Islamophobia entered policy prominence through Runnymede’s 1997 report. (similarity 0.87)
• The 1994 Runnymede report first acknowledged Islamophobia in British non-Muslim print. (similarity 0.86)
• Retaining ‘Islamophobia’ over victim-centred terms is necessary because media negativity attaches to ‘Islam’ itself. (similarity 0.86)
• Britain has failed to officially define Islamophobia decades after Runnymede’s report (similarity 0.85)
• Islamophobia as a concept never reached everyday popular discourse. (similarity 0.85)
• British press language linked Islamophobia to racism and institutional forms (similarity 0.85)
• Media discourse frames Islamophobia as increasing and institutional. (similarity 0.84)
• The English word Islamic has become negatively saturated in press usage (similarity 0.84)
• The term Islamophobia originated in a 1991 Runnymede Trust report (similarity 0.84)
• The Runnymede Trust popularized the term Islamophobia in 1997. (similarity 0.83)
• Public Islamophobia debate lacks empirical grounding and nuance (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia’s coinage predates the Oxford English Dictionary’s 1991 attribution. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Yearly Islamophobia mentions in the British press nearly doubled after 2010 #qualifies (0.80) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 616
• Discussion of Islamophobia in British media increased and grew more serious over time. #corroborates (0.78) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 620
• Islamophobia usage rose in British press while sarcastic or denying uses halved #qualifies (0.75) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 615