1.0Twist Islamophobiahttps://twistislamophobia.org/enFundación de Cultura Islámicahttps://twistislamophobia.org/en/author/funci/Why does Islamophobia exist? - Twist Islamophobiarich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="nP1nteKiEG"><a href="https://twistislamophobia.org/en/2022/08/24/why-does-islamophobia-exist/">Why does Islamophobia exist?</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://twistislamophobia.org/en/2022/08/24/why-does-islamophobia-exist/embed/#?secret=nP1nteKiEG" width="600" height="338" title="“Why does Islamophobia exist?” — Twist Islamophobia" data-secret="nP1nteKiEG" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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https://twistislamophobia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Stopislamofobia_Fotomovimiento.jpg800534We recover this article by Daniel Gil-Benumeya, professor at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and researcher and collaborator of the Islamic Culture Foundation, and Laura Mijares, professor at the UCM, published by El Salto Diario. The article delves into the causes and structural elements on which Islamophobia is built, offering an updated definition of Islamophobia. Despite its name, Islamophobia is not fear of Islam. It is a complex phenomenon composed of several factors. On the one hand, it is a form of racism against people who are Muslim or read as such, regardless of their actual religious practice. Racism in two senses: first, because it racializes Muslim people, that is, it attributes to them a series of characteristics that tend to function as an explanatory key to everything they think, say or do, in the same way that biologicist racism attributed different capacities and behavioral tendencies to human “races”. Under an Islamophobic view, a Muslim person is inexorably determined by his or her belonging to Islam, by his or her “Muslimness”, which is defined according to the set of representations that non-Muslim societies have of what it means to be Muslim. The greatest evidence of this, although not the ...