Anti-Muslim parties now hold significant political weight across European parliaments
Evidence
The British think tank Demos has summed up this growing trend nicely: “Formerly on the political fringes, these [anti-Muslim political] parties now command significant political weight in the parliaments of Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden, Latvia and Slovakia, as well as the European Parliament.” Because of their growing political market share, far-right Islamophobic racists are going to be a part of the political scene in Europe for the immediate and foreseeable future. They are not going to fade away, or get tired and go home. European politicians have realized that inciting hate against some of Europe’s most vulnerable immigrant minorities can be a path to electoral power. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 532
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Kumar’s argument about the mainstreaming of right-wing hate and to the Europe-focused chapters in the single-nation studies. — connects to: European radical right vote share quadrupled from 1985 to 2006 — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 454; European politicians weaponize hijab bans across the political spectrum — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 367; Islamophobic fringe politicians have become mainstream coalition power-brokers — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 519 (+4 more)
- SEED: Angle: the Demos list of countries as an empirical map of where Islamophobic parties already hold parliamentary weight—a data-driven survey piece.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 532
Related
- Anti-Muslim politics thrive even where Muslim populations are tiny (similarity 0.86)
- European Islamophobia has moved from the far right into the political mainstream. (similarity 0.84)
- European radical right vote share quadrupled from 1985 to 2006 (similarity 0.84)
- Islamophobic fringe politicians have become mainstream coalition power-brokers (similarity 0.83)
- Hate speech censorship contributes to the rise of anti-Muslim parties (similarity 0.81)
- European politicians weaponize hijab bans across the political spectrum (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Explicit Islamophobia has become an effective electoral strategy
#corroborates(0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 508 - European Islamophobia has moved from the far right into the political mainstream.
#expands(0.60) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 480 - Anti-Muslim politics thrive even where Muslim populations are tiny
#expands(0.50) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 559 - Anti-Muslim prejudice was deliberately deployed by elites at specific political moments.
#expands(0.50) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 25