id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_gntdnbbffrgffk4bivebdt7k7u Rebecca Ruth Gould THE LIMITS OF LIBERAL INCLUSIVITY: HOW DEFINING ISLAMOPHOBIA NORMALIZES ANTI-MUSLIM RACISM 2020 20 .pdf application/pdf 12509 820 41 efforts to dene Islamophobia for the purpose of critiquing (in contrast to banning) public discourse, provided we resist falling into "the trap of regarding Islam monolithically."13 More dangerous and less helpful are efforts to give any such denition government backing, or otherwise solid foundation for pluralist democratic legitimacy that does not use government-backed denitions of racism to censor controversial (or even racist) speech. Having examined the politics of denitions from the point of view of their implications for democratic governance, I offer an immanent critique of recent efforts to dene Islamophobia that is governmental complicity into his denition of Islamophobia as an attitude "rooted in understandings of Islam as civilization's antithesis and perpetuated by government structures and private citizens."39 He also goes beyond the APPG on British Muslims report in examining the intersection of Muslim citizens, a government denition of Islamophobia could never reach a democratically legitimate consensus among the group targeted for protection. ./cache/work_gntdnbbffrgffk4bivebdt7k7u.pdf ./txt/work_gntdnbbffrgffk4bivebdt7k7u.txt