Counter-jihad campaigns have spread across Western countries and infected mainstream politics.
Evidence
Another feature of the last 20 years has been the proliferation of political mobilizations against Islam by far-right groups and ‘counter-jihad’ movements. This has extended across many European and North American countries and included campaigns against mosques and halal meat and for ‘burqa bans’. … The impact of these counter-jihad movements has been violence directed towards Muslims, while their ideas are now influencing and entering the mainstream, as is most visible in the US with the election of Donald Trump. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 146
Categorization
- XREF: The claim that far-right anti-Muslim ideas ‘enter the mainstream’ resonates with the module’s stakes: whether Islamophobia is a fringe phenomenon or a shaping force in liberal political institutions. — connects to: European counter-jihadism spans both populist parties and street movements. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 519; Counterterrorism rhetoric masks an offensive campaign against Muslims.; The War on Terror metastasized into a global network of state crusades against Muslims (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- European Islamophobia has moved from the far right into the political mainstream.
#corroborates(0.85) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 480 - The War on Terror metastasized into a global network of state crusades against Muslims
#expands(0.80) - Anti-Muslim mobilizations form a transnational movement with distinct ideology and policy reach.
#corroborates(0.80) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 545 - Counterterrorism rhetoric masks an offensive campaign against Muslims.
#complicates(0.78) - 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 - Anti-Muslim fear-mongering empowered by right-wing foundations fuels mainstream hatred.
#corroborates(0.75) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 626 - The US counter-jihad movement exercises direct influence on national policy
#expands(0.72) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 536