Internationalizing Islamophobia Anti Islamophobic Practices from the Runnymede Trust to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation

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2013-05-01

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Bahçecik, Şerif Onur

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Especially since the September 11 attacks, the position of Muslim communities living in Western countries has become under focus. Many Muslim political leaders, activists as well as scholars have pointed to the existence of Islamophobia, or an irrational fear or prejudice towards Islam and Muslims, as the cause for discrimination against Muslims. The literature on Islamophobia has grown, various governmental programs have been implemented to repress it, while scholars developed means to measure it as an attitude. Rather than focusing on Islamophobia itself, this paper seeks to shift the focus on anti-Islamophobia practices of various organizations, especially the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. It looks at the emergence of anti-Islamophobic discourse in the 90s, how this discourse isolates and problematizes Islamophobia by redefining what Muslims stand for. This paper argues that anti-Islamophobic practices cannot be simply taken as a strategy to combat Islamophobia. While it drives its legitimacy from repression of xenophobia and discrimination, it simultaneously seeks to govern by promoting certain ways of social co-existence.

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Discourse, Governance, Organization of Islamic Cooperation, International Organizations, Islamophobia

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/80676
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/886921

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Ortadoğu Etüdleri

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Department of International Relations, Article

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Ş. O. Bahçecik, “Internationalizing Islamophobia Anti Islamophobic Practices from the Runnymede Trust to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation,” Ortadoğu Etüdleri, pp. 141–165, 2013, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/80676.