A transnational counter-jihad network moves ideas, people, and money between the US and Europe

Evidence

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. Sociologist David Miller’s non-profit organization, Public Interest Investigations, posted a report on its Spinwatch website in 2019 on the global counterjihad movement and its sources of funding. The Spinwatch report states that “the US counterjihad movement has been critical to facilitating the flows of ideas, people and money into Europe via its transatlantic network.” The Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik, who killed seventyseven people in a bombing and mass shooting in 2011, cited several prominent US Islamophobes in his manifesto. Co-founder of Stop Islamization of America with Geller, Robert Spencer, led the pack, receiving 162 mentions in the racist diatribe. Buoyed by the victory in Switzerland in 2009, Geller and Spencer set out to reproduce the phenomenon of generating hatred for the symbols of Islam in New York City. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 648

Categorization

• QUESTION: The passage asserts US-to-Europe flow but Geller imported Eurabia from Europe — which direction does causation primarily run for this network?
• SEED: A piece on how a named ‘monster’ network — Geller, Spencer, Wilders, Breivik — explicitly cross-funds and cross-cites — renders the lone-wolf myth unsustainable and shows manufactured Islamophobia has a paper trail.
• XREF: Breivik citing Spencer 162 times directly substantiates the vault’s claim that the far right and terrorism are networked, not isolated — and that Islamophobia incitement has lethal consequences. — connects to: A coordinated international counter-jihad movement shares strategies across borders — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 648; US Islamophobes inspired the Norwegian terrorist Breivik through transatlantic networks — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 648; A US-based transatlantic counter-jihad network exports Islamophobia to Europe (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• A US-based transatlantic counter-jihad network exports Islamophobia to Europe #corroborates (0.95)
• The counterjihad movement moves ideas and money across the Atlantic #corroborates (0.92)
• Counter-jihad ideology frames Islam as a hostile alien culture invading the west #expands (0.75) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 141
• The Eurabia conspiracy theory migrated from Europe into US Islamophobia #expands (0.72)