Fred Halliday — ‘Islamophobia’ Reconsidered

11 published claims from this book.

• A dialogue-based anti-Islamophobia framing can silence legitimate universal-rights criticism.
• Anti-Muslim prejudice is contingent and changeable, not fixed in Western character.
• Anti-Muslim racism targets Muslims as a people, not their religion
• Casting hostility to Muslims as perennial misattributes contemporary causes to religion.
• Critical scrutiny must extend to Islamist movements themselves, not only their oppressors.
• Hostility today targets Muslims as a people, not Islam as a faith.
• Islamism is a distinctly non-Western modernity that rejects rather than adapts Western discourse.
• Islamism is a late entry in a century of anti-Western protest.
• Muslim identity cannot be reduced to religion alone
• Muslim identity is real but never the sole or primary form of social self-understanding.
• Presenting Islam as a fixed given is itself the distorting rhetorical move.