A coordinated international counter-jihad movement shares strategies across borders

Evidence

In protesting the proposed Islamic center, Geller and her ilk were likely trying to reproduce the success of the Swiss referendum the previous year to ban the construction of minarets. At the time of the vote, there were only four minarets in all of Switzerland, and yet the majority of Swiss voters supported the ban. There is a global Islamophobia network that works cooperatively together. Known as the “counter-jihad” movement, it works across borders sharing strategies, theories, and rhetoric. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 648

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘counter-jihad’ movement as a transnational Islamophobia network sharing tactics and funding.
• QUESTION: Worth tracing the US-to-Europe flow of counterjihad ideas, people, and money described by the Spinwatch report.
• XREF: connects to: A transnational counter-jihad network moves ideas, people, and money between the US and Europe — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 648; Modern terrorist groups operate as dispersed nonstate actors needing multinational countermeasures — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2280; The War on Terror fragmented into connected systems of global Muslim subordination — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 73 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• A transnational counter-jihad network moves ideas, people, and money between the US and Europe #corroborates (0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 648
• The counterjihad movement moves ideas and money across the Atlantic #corroborates (0.95)
• A US-based transatlantic counter-jihad network exports Islamophobia to Europe #corroborates (0.92)
• Anti-Muslim mobilizations form a transnational movement with distinct ideology and policy reach. #corroborates (0.90) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 545
• Modern terrorist groups operate as dispersed nonstate actors needing multinational countermeasures #complicates (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2280
• Counter-jihad mobilizations are triggered by local cultural anxieties, not national crises #complicates (0.75) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 528
• Counter-jihad mobilization is not driven by economic crisis or jihadist violence #complicates (0.72) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 527
• International connections can energize local ethnoracial organizing and insurgency #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1202
• The War on Terror fragmented into connected systems of global Muslim subordination #complicates (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 73
• US-supported jihad framing recruited global mujahideen for Pakistan’s regional ambitions #complicates (0.70)