Islamophobia and Threat Perceptions: Explaining Anti-Muslim Sentiment in the West

Ciftci, Sabri

doi:10.1080/13602004.2012.727291

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“…Conversely, one could question how the result might have been different if Michael had been a racialised Muslim – this was Hamza's eventual train of thought. It is not difficult to conceive how a racialised Muslim's violence towards strangers would be subject to more scrutiny (Ciftci ). Indeed, white attackers are less likely to be designated terrorists than racialised Muslim attackers, which then impacts how terrorism statistics are collated (Corbin ).…”

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Islamophobia in the National Health Service: an ethnography of institutional racism in PREVENT's counter‐radicalisation policy

Younis

Jadhav

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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In 2015, the UK government made its counter‐radicalisation policy a statutory duty for all National Health Service (NHS) staff. Staff are now tasked to identify and report individuals they suspect may be vulnerable to radicalisation. Prevent training employs a combination of psychological and ideological frames to convey the meaning of radicalisation to healthcare staff, but studies have shown that the threat of terrorism is racialised as well. The guiding question of our ethnography is: how is counter‐radicalisation training understood and practiced by healthcare professionals? A frame analysis draws upon 2 years of ethnographic fieldwork, which includes participant observation in Prevent training and NHS staff interviews. This article demonstrates how Prevent engages in performative colour‐blindness – the active recognition and dismissal of the race frame which associates racialised Muslims with the threat of terrorism. It concludes with a discussion of institutional racism in the NHS – how racialised policies like Prevent impact the minutia of clinical interactions; how the pretence of a ‘post‐racial’ society obscures institutional racism; how psychologisation is integral to the performance of colour‐blindness; and why it is difficult to address the racism associated with colourblind policies which purport to address the threat of the Far‐Right.

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Islamophobia in the National Health Service: an ethnography of institutional racism in PREVENT's counter‐radicalisation policy

Younis

Jadhav

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…These phenomena certainly can (and probably they have already done it) create the environment and the overall socio-political context for developing negative attitudes toward Muslims and Islam in the West as well as its satellite countries (which Croatia certainly is). This is also supported by a number of recent papers in (Western) Europe addressing the theme of Islam and Muslims (Adida et al 2010;Bleich 2009;Carr and Haynes 2013;Ciftci 2012;Elchardus and Spruyt 2014;Fetzer and Soper 2003;Field 2007;González et al 2008;Mandel 2014;Nilsson 2015;Savelkoul et al 2012;Spruyt and Elchardus 2012;Strabac and Listhaug 2008;Wike and Grim 2010). Many of them refer to the increased values of negative attitudes toward Muslims in Europe, which can be brought in the context of immigration and terrorism, poor economic conditions, the cultural heritage of communism and the lack of democratic tradition in post-communist countries (Jeong 2017).…”

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Impact of Religious Self-Identification and Church Attendance on Social Distance toward Muslims

2019

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In the context of our work, we want to point out how religion has multiple social functions and as such, under certain circumstances, can serve as a fertile soil for distance and closeness. The aim of this study was to explore the impact of religious self-identification and church attendance on social distance toward Muslims. We applied a questionnaire to students of the University of Split, the city which is geographically in vicinity of the complex of ethnic and religious context of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The results showed that religious self-identification and church attendance significantly influence the level of social distance toward Muslims. Believers showed a significantly higher level of social distance, in comparison to respondents who belong but not believe, and others. Respondents who attend church daily or once a week have also a higher level of social distance in comparison to respondents who attend church monthly or rarely and those who never attend church. We have tried to explain the reasons for such research findings, relying on various national, cultural, religious and psychological factors that have been present in the last twenty years after the war in this region.

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“…Defending her actions, Ruby spoke of her rage at what she perceived was nothing short of a 'muzzle minus the leash' and described the veil as 'an aggressive act' (Allen 2010). Ruby's perception of the veil as an aggressive act is not unique in the context of the rise in Islamophobia (Ciftci 2012;Saeed 2007;Vakil 2008) but poses a very important question: how could an item of clothing become so contentious as to be perceived as an act of aggression upon the onlooker? Clearly, many discursive practices had led to that moment when Ruby felt she could not take it anymore and, to use her own words, 'cracked' (Allen 2010).…”

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The social semiotics of hijab: Negotiating the body politics of veiled women

Al-Mahadin

2013

Journal of Arab &Amp; Muslim Media Research

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The social semiotics of hijab: negotiating the body politics of veiled women abSTracT Hijab and other forms of Islamic head cover have become indelibly associated with notions of inequality and repression in the minds of many non-Muslims. This article queries the meanings and functions of hijab within both Muslim and non-Muslim contexts. It begins by exploring hijab as a transcendental signifier and the epistemological challenges it poses to the gaze. The discussion shifts to focus on the social semiotics of hijab in Arab/Muslim contexts and the myriad fashions and signifieds associated with hijab before situating the hjiab within the western context of the society of enjoyment. The article concludes that the repressive hypothesis associated with hijab is too reductionist to explain the complex and multiple meanings attached to it.

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Islamophobia and Threat Perceptions: Explaining Anti-Muslim Sentiment in the West

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Cited by 127 publications

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Islamophobia in the National Health Service: an ethnography of institutional racism in PREVENT's counter‐radicalisation policy

Islamophobia in the National Health Service: an ethnography of institutional racism in PREVENT's counter‐radicalisation policy

Impact of Religious Self-Identification and Church Attendance on Social Distance toward Muslims

The social semiotics of hijab: Negotiating the body politics of veiled women

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