Applied linguists have increasingly focused on how the lives of English language teachers and learners are shaped by race its intersections with other marginalized identities (e.g. Von Esch et al, 2020). Curiously overlooked, however, experiences one particularly stigmatized group in English-majority countries: Muslim women veiled niqab or hijab. In a global climate wary displays identity, such...

Since 7/7, much has been said about the end, and at times, the ‘death’ of multiculturalism in both the public and political spaces. Considering whether much of this discourse is little more than a thinly veiled discourse about the presence, role and responsibilities of Muslims in today’s Britain, the paper takes the findings of the 1997 Runnymede report into Islamophobia and uses this as a prem...

Islamophobia is an irrational fear or prejudice towards Islam Muslims. It can manifest itself in many ways, including but not limited to discrimination against Muslims employment, the media, education, and everyday life; hate speech crimes Muslims; exclusion of from public sphere. a form bigotry racism. rooted ignorance misinformation about Islamophobes often falsely conflate with terrorism, ex...