ABSTRACT

In this final chapter, some conclusions of my study are presented, with an understanding of racism based on the insights gained throughout my analysis of the cases. The chapter develops an argument about the significance of the meeting between racist acts and law and about how the context in which racism is forbidden by law influences the character of racist acts. I also re-examine the judgements, exploring the nature of the courts’ silence around the possibility that the acts of violence on trial involve anti-Muslim racism, and formulate a claim that the treatment of the cases by the judiciary involved a particular type of unrecognition.