Three takes on Islamophobia

Kayaoğlu, Turan

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“…Whereas Britain on the one hand and Germany and Switzerland on the other hand stand out as cases where scores are either high or low along both the institutional and the discursive dimension, France shows consistent intermediate scores in terms of opportunities across the institutional and the public domain. From this perspective, our findings fit with the argument of those who have shed light on the crossroads at which France stands in terms of integration of Muslims and other minorities—with continuous political readjustments that have rebalanced citizenship rights across the civic–ethnic spectrum (Weil, 2008), crucial renegotiations of republicanism vis-à-vis the growing demands for pluralism (Safran, 2003), and the increasing acknowledgement that equality has to respect difference (Khosrokhavar, 1997; Touraine, 1997).…”

Section: Cross-national Variations In Claim-making Over Islamsupporting

confidence: 80%

“…Our focus on policy makers and organized publics is valuable to assess the extent to which they do stand against each other. We can also look better into the common assumption that Islamophobia (Kayaog˘lu, 2012) is almost ubiquitous in the public domain. Finally, the analysis of (mis)matching between institutions and discourse allows for further scrutinizing the arguments of those who consider that the policy agenda is likely to adapt to the prevailing stance in the public domain so as to secure political gains for the elites (Freeman, 2002).…”

Section: Institutional Opportunitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Political opportunities, citizenship models and political claim-making over Islam

Cinalli

Giugni

2013

Ethnicities

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This article engages with the systematic analysis of two main dimensions of political opportunities-namely institutional opportunities and discursive opportunities-so as to appraise their impact upon claim-making in the field of Islam. We account for crossnational variations of claim-making in terms of (1) visibility of Muslims, (2) use of collective action, and (3) salience of cultural issues in five main European countries of Muslim settlement, that is Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. In addition, we propose a conceptual framework that tackles a crucial conundrum that one finds in the scholarly literature, namely the variable (dis)alignment that may exist between the restrictive/expansionist stance of institutions and policy actors on the one hand and the restrictive/expansionist discursive position that prevails in the public domain on the other hand. Emphasis is also placed on a number of unexpected findings, such as the divergence between Britain and the Netherlands, the not so universalistic approach of French republicanism, and the small steps that Germany has walked towards multiculturalism.

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Section: Cross-national Variations In Claim-making Over Islamsupporting

confidence: 80%

Section: Institutional Opportunitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political opportunities, citizenship models and political claim-making over Islam

Cinalli

Giugni

2013

Ethnicities

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“…However, over time, Islamophobia has advanced into an accepted concept that implies hatred or animosity aimed at Islam and Muslims (Kayaoglu 2012;Klug 2012). The task here is to discuss it in relation to theories on racism and xenophobia (cf.…”

Section: Islamophobia and Racismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Online Islamophobia and the politics of fear: manufacturing the green scare

Ekman¹

2015

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Negative attitudes and explicit racism against Muslims are increasingly visible in public discourse throughout Europe. Right-wing populist parties have strengthened their positions by focusing on the 'Islamic threat' to the West. Concurrently, the Internet has facilitated a space where racist attitudes towards Muslims are easily disseminated into the public debate, fuelling animosity against European Muslims. This paper explores part of the online Islamophobic network and scrutinizes the discursive strategies deployed by three 'prominent' online actors. By combining social network analysis and critical discourse analysis, the study shows that Islamophobic web pages constitute a dynamic network with ties to different political and geographical milieus. They create a seemingly mainstream political position by framing racist standpoints as a defence of Western values and freedom of speech. The study also shows that Islamophobic discourse is strengthened by xenophobic currents within mass media, and by the legitimization of intellectuals and political actors.

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“…Now the main role of Orient belongs to media and the internet. In E. Said's book "Covering Islam" [24], the author critically analyses the Western press and the means, by which true Islam is hidden during 1980s. This book provided impartial and objective information, however the opportunity to give people the real truth was not used.…”

Section: Social Sciencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Media, Stereotypes and Muslim Representation: World After Jyllands-Posten Muhammad Cartoons Controversy

Sutkutė

2019

EUREKA: Social and Humanities

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In the 21st century media has become the dominant source of knowledge of Islam and Muslims and selectively decides what the West should know about Islam and what should be hidden. However, the underlying assumption is that, the media as an institution forming stereotypes depends on the local socio-cultural context. The goal of this paper – to find out how media (as the mediator) forms values, world view of a society, creates stereotypes in different cultural environments through analysis of Muhammad cartoons. The objectives are: to define the concepts of Neo-Orientalism, Muslimophobia and Islamophobia; to find out the connection between media representations and negative images of Islam and Muslims in the society; to reveal the main stereotypes of Muslims and Islam in online media in 4 different countries by analysing the case of Muhammad cartoons. The conducted qualitative and quantitative content analysis confirmed the hypothesis that in the specific cultures the same event is presented in different ways while forming value based orientation for a specific audience. Western media seeks to portray Muslims as terrorists / Islamists that are against West, their values and any possibility of integration in Western societies. Meanwhile, Lebanon and India (Kashmir) media does not portray orientalism and Islamophobic views, because audiences are dominated by Muslims. However there are noticeable manifestations of Occidentalism - resistance to the West and the Islamophobic portrayal of public in media. Moreover, information serves as a public mobilization function, so there are reasons to believe that violent protests in Kashmir and Lebanon could have been encouraged by the media.

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Three takes on Islamophobia

Cited by 9 publications

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Political opportunities, citizenship models and political claim-making over Islam

Political opportunities, citizenship models and political claim-making over Islam

Online Islamophobia and the politics of fear: manufacturing the green scare

Media, Stereotypes and Muslim Representation: World After Jyllands-Posten Muhammad Cartoons Controversy

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