{"id":6004,"date":"2026-04-01T15:31:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/secularism-race-and-the-politics-of-islamophobia-georgetown-university\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:31:23","slug":"secularism-race-and-the-politics-of-islamophobia-georgetown-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/secularism-race-and-the-politics-of-islamophobia-georgetown-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Secularism, Race, and the Politics of Islamophobia – Georgetown University"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bridge Initiative<\/a>
The Bridge Initiative is a multi-year research project on Islamophobia housed in Georgetown University
Bridge Initiative<\/a>
The Bridge Initiative is a multi-year research project on Islamophobia housed in Georgetown University
Within the field of <\/span>Islamophobia<\/span>, dominant scholarship identifies the issue as a form of racism, where race and religion have become conflated in social structures. Secularism, Race, and the Politics of Islamophobia makes a new contribution to the “Islamophobia is racism\u201d thesis by analyzing how secularism organizes and constructs the racialization of <\/span>Muslims<\/span> and perpetuates anti-Muslim racism. It argues that the \u201cIslamophobia is racism\u201d argument is restrictive as it fails to analyze the concept of <\/span>religion<\/span>. Often the conversations around Islamophobia are focused on the Muslim individual, but it is limiting as it doesn\u2019t capture\/address how religion, in particular, Islam is targeted and demonized. To address this, the authors of the book underscore how secularism plays a foundational role in how we understand race and religion today. The contributors call attention to the ways secularism is embedded in and drives the disciplinary institutions of the State (i.e. law, political groups, government entities, bureaucracies) to authorize racism and the racialization of Muslims and Islam. <\/span>
This panel includes three of the book\u2019s contributors, Dr. Jinan Bastaki, Dr. Roshan Arah Jahangeer, and Dr. Fatimah Jackson-Best, along with the editor, Dr. Sharmin Sadequee. Their chapters address a range of topics, including how neoliberalism and capital allow for the accommodation of some Muslims, how secularism and claims of \u201cseparatism\u201d in France seek to make Islam invisible, and the compounding effects of anti-Black and gendered Islamophobia on Black Muslim women in Canada.
Purchase their book\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

bridge@georgetown.edu<\/a>
Copyright \u00a9 2018 Georgetown University. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n

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Bridge InitiativeThe Bridge Initiative is a multi-year research project on Islamophobia housed in Georgetown UniversityBridge InitiativeThe Bridge Initiative is a multi-year research project on Islamophobia housed in Georgetown UniversityWithin the field of Islamophobia, dominant scholarship identifies the issue as a form of racism, where race and religion have become conflated in social structures. Secularism, Race, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}