Passing the Dinner Table Test: Retrospective and Prospective Approaches to Tackling Islamophobia in Britain

SAGE Open

Chris Allen¹ 

关键词: Islamophobia;    anti-Muslim hatred;    British government;    discrimination;    religion;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244013484734

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Through establishing the All Party Parliamentary Group on Islamophobia and Cross-Government Working Group on Anti-Muslim Hatred, the Coalition government has afforded significance to Islamophobia. Focusing on definition, evidence, and politics, this article considers British governmental policy approaches to tackling Islamophobia over the past 15 years. Tracing religiously based discrimination from the 1980s to the publication of the Runnymede Trust’s 1997 groundbreaking report into Islamophobia, this article explores how the New Labour government sought primarily to address Islamophobia through a broadening of the equalities framework. Against a backdrop of 9/11 and 7/7, a concurrent security and antiterror agenda had detrimental impacts. Under the Coalition, there has been a marked change. Considering recent developments and initiatives, the Coalition has seemingly rejected Islamophobia as an issue of equalities preferring approaches more akin to tackling Anti-Semitism. In conclusion, definition, evidence, and politics are revisited to offer a prospective for future British governmental policy.

【 授权许可】

CC BY