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Approaching a Definition of Islamophobia, Is He Immediately Started Complaining NATHAN SPARKES, HACKED OFF CAMPAIGN Table of Contents LEVESON AND THE GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE TO KEEP ITS PROMISES TO THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................... 3 VICTIMS OF PRESS ABUSE ............................ 67 FOREWORD ................................................... 7 PART III: THE SOCIO-POLITICAL AND PERSONAL CONSEQUENCES OF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .......................................... 8 ISLAMOPHOBIA ......................................... 77 PART I: INTRODUCING MEND’S Racial and Religious Hate Crime ................. 78 DEFINITION OF ISLAMOPHOBIA ....... 15 NAZIR AFZAL, OBE CHALLENGING TIMES A Call for a Definition of “Islamophobia” .... 16 TO BE A MUSLIM ............................................. 78 A Message from our CEO .............................. 18 DR SHAZAD AMIN, CONSULTANT MEND’s Definition of Islamophobia ............ 19 PHSYCHIATRIST ISLAMOPHOBIA AND MENTAL HEALTH .......................................... 85 Understanding MEND’s Definition of Islamophobia .................................................. 21 Youth and Education..................................... 87 Diversity of Terminology: Why use SHEREEN FERNANDEZ, QUEEN MARY “Islamophobia”? ............................................. 23 UNIVERSITY ISLAMOPHOBIA AND EDUCATION ..................................................... 88 Understanding British Muslim Communities .................................................. 26 DR SADIA HABIB BRITISHNESS, BELONGING AND ISLAMOPHOBIA: PROFESSOR SOPHIE GILLIAT-RAY, CARDIFF REFLECTION AND DIALOGUE................... 90 UNIVERSITY THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF MUSLIMS IN BRITAIN ................................. 28 PROFESSOR JOHN HOLMWOOD, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM THE BIRMINGHAM PART II: THE MANIFESTATIONS, TROJAN HORSE AFFAIR .............................. 92 LOGICS, AND MECHANISMS THAT FUEL ISLAMOPHOBIA ............................. 31 Economic Exclusion: Islamophobia and the Labour Market................................................ 96 The Assumptions of Islamophobia ............. 32 Securitising Muslim Identities: Security and DR AURELIEN MONDON, UNIVERSITY OF BATH Counter-Terror ............................................... 99 AND DR AARON WINTER, UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON LIBERAL AND ILLIBERAL PROFESSOR TODD GREEN, LUTHER COLLEGE ISLAMOPHOBIAS ........................................... 35 USA ISLAMOPHOBIA AND THE PRESUMPTION OF MUSLIM GUILT IN Islamophobia, Xenophobia, Racism, and TERRORISM .................................................. 100 Anti-Semitism ................................................ 37 HAREEM GHANI AND ILYAS NAGDEE, NUS PROFESSOR TARIQ MODOOD, UNIVERSITY ISLAMOPHOBIA, PREVENT AND OF BRISTOL ISLAMOPHOBIA: A FORM OF UNIVERSITY ................................................... 112 CULTURAL RACISM .................................... 37 ROB FAURE WALKER, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DR YULIA EGOROVA, DURHAM UNIVERSITY LONDON INSTEAD OF BEING CAST AS A ISLAMOPHOBIA IN ITS RELATION TO THREAT, MUSLIM SOLIDARITY COULD ANTI-SEMITISM .............................................. 44 SHOW US ALL HOW TO LIVE TOGETHER PROFESSOR NASAR MEER FACSS, UNIVERSITY ........................................................................... 118 OF EDINBURGH WHAT IS THE Crime, Policing and the Criminal Justice RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ISLAMOPHOBIA System ........................................................... 122 AND ANTISEMITISM? .................................... 45 Political Representation and Exclusion .... 130 Driving Islamophobic Narratives: The Islamophobia Industry ................................. 47 AMAN ALI, MEND HEAD OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT DR HILARY AKED, PHD UNIVERSITY OF BATH DEVELOPING CIVIC SENSIBILITIES ......... 130 THE ‘ISLAMOPHOBIA INDUSTRY’ ............. 48 DR JOE GREENWOOD, YOUGOV THE Moral Panic, Media, and Broadcasting ...... 61 BENEFITS OF PARTICIPATION .................. 135 1 Public Exclusion, Integration and Minority Rights ............................................................ 137 DR JAN DOBBERNACK, NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY ISLAMOPHOBIA AND THE MYTH OF MUSLIM DISTANCE.................. 140 DR LASSE THOMASSEN, QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY REPRESENTING MUSLIM WOMEN AND ISLAMOPHOBIA ............... 146 DR AZEEZAT JOHNSON, QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY CONTROVERSY AND MUSLIM WOMEN’S CLOTHING PRACTICES ......... 154 PART IV: APPROACHES TO TACKLING ISLAMOPHOBIA ...................................... 157 MEND’s Model to Tackling Islamophobia ............................................... 158 2 Representative Politics” (Ethnicities, 2017). Acknowledgements He has previously held fellowships at the Contributors University of Bristol’s Centre for Ethnicity and Citizenship and at the European Nazir Afzal, OBE University Institute’s Robert Schuman Nazir Afzal, OBE, is an eminent lawyer Centre for Advanced Studies. who has campaigned on issues including Dr Yulia Egorova, Durham University child sexual exploitation and violence Dr Yulia Egorova is Reader in against women. He has worked Anthropology at Durham University. She extensively within the Crown Prosecution is the author of numerous publications Service and was the first Muslim to be exploring issues in the study of inter- appointed as Chief Prosecutor and was the community relations, including the most senior Muslim lawyer in the forthcoming “Jews and Muslims in South organisation. He is the recipient of many Asia: Reflections on Difference, Religion awards for his activities including the and Race” (Oxford University Press). People's Award which was voted for by readers of a national newspaper. He is Pro Rob Faure Walker, University College Chancellor of Brunel University & London Honorary Fellow of UCLAN and has Rob Faure Walker is a PhD candidate at Honorary Doctorates in Law from UCL Institute of Education where he is University of Birmingham & Manchester. investigating the impact of counter- In 2005; he was awarded an OBE by the terrorism discourses in educational Queen. He has also had the honour of settings and on the democratic process. He being the only lawyer to ever prosecute a has also worked as a secondary teacher in case before the Queen. London since 2005. He manages Prevent Dr Hilary Aked, PhD University of Bath Digest, a monthly newsletter related to Prevent (www.preventdigest.co.uk). Hilary Aked is a freelance writer and researcher who holds a PhD from the Shereen Fernandez, Queen Mary University of Bath and is currently writing University a book about the Israel lobby in the UK. Shereen Fernandez is a PhD researcher at Recent publications include “The Henry Queen Mary University. Prior to this, she Jackson Society and the Degeneration of worked as a primary school teacher in British Neoconservatism” (Public Interest London. Investigations, 2015, co-author) and “The Britain Israel Communications and Hareem Ghani, NUS Women’s Officer Research Centre: Giving peace a Hareem Ghani is the NUS Women’s chance?” (Public Interest Investigations, Officer where she has led on work 2013, co-author). surrounding gendered Islamophobia, Dr Jan Dobbernack, Newcastle institutional responses to sexual violence University and student-staff misconduct. She is completing her Undergraduate in History Dr Jan Dobbernack is Lecturer in Sociology at Kings College London where she also at Newcastle University. His publications founded It Stops Here, a zero-tolerance include “The Politics of Social Cohesion in campaign against sexual misconduct, Germany, France and the United bullying and harassment. Kingdom (Palgrave, 2014), Citizenship, Nationality and Immigration in Germany” (Global Centre for Pluralism, 2017) and “Making a Presence: Images of Polity and Constituency in British Muslim 3 Professor Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Cardiff London. She is author of Learning and University Teaching British Values: Policies and Sophie Gilliat-Ray is Professor of Religious Perspectives on British Identities Studies at Cardiff University, and the (Palgrave, 2017). Founding Director of the Islam-UK Centre, Professor John Holmwood, University of established in 2005. She has published Nottingham numerous books and articles about Islam John Holmwood is Professor of Sociology and Muslims in Britain and has a particular at the University of Nottingham and interest in Muslim chaplaincy and member of the Institute for Advanced religious leadership. Sophie is the Study, Princeton during academic year incoming Chair of the British Sociological 2014-15. He is co-author (with Therese Association ‘Study Group’ for Religion, O'Toole) of “Countering Extremism in and the former Chair of the ‘Muslims in British Schools? The Truth about the Britain Research Network’. Outside the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair” (Policy day-job, Sophie is a very keen cyclist, Press 2018). He was expert witness for the raising money for the charity ‘Women V defence in the National College of Cancer’. Teaching and Leadership professional Professor Todd Green, Luther College misconduct case against senior teachers at USA Park View Educational Trust. Todd Green is associate professor of Dr Azeezat Johnson, Queen Mary religion at Luther College and a former University advisor on Islamophobia at the US State Azeezat Johnson is a lecturer in Geography Department in Washington, DC. He is the at Queen Mary University of London. She author of “Presumed Guilty: Why We is one of the co-editors for “The Fire Now: Shouldn't Ask Muslims to Condemn anti-racist scholarship in times of explicit Terrorism” (Fortress Press, 2018) and “The racial violence” (to be published by Zed Fear of Islam: An
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