Counter-jihad mobilizations are triggered by local cultural anxieties, not national crises

Evidence

Instead, the idea of Islam as a hostile, ‘alien’ culture has been important, and it is often refracted through specific, local experiences. For instance, the EDL grew out of the United People of Luton, a local protest group set up in response to a demonstration by offshoots of Al Muhajiroun, which had protested a homecoming parade by the Royal Anglian Regiment in Luton town centre. The first Pegida protests were organized after the movement’s founder witnessed an anti-ISIS demonstration by supporters of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) in Dresden city centre, which he saw as symptomatic of the importation of ‘foreign’ religious conflicts into Germany. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 528

Categorization

• XREF: The construction of Islam as ‘alien culture’ through local incident parallels how the report elsewhere treats culturalized anti-Muslim racism as distinct from classical biological racism. — connects to: Anti-Islam mobilization forms a transnational organized political movement, not mere prejudice. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 515; European counter-jihadism spans both populist parties and street movements. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 519; Counter-jihad mobilization is not explained by economic crisis or jihadist violence. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 532 (+7 more)

Related

• Counter-jihad movements are grounded in contingent local grievances more than a unitary Islam. (similarity 0.93)
• Counter-jihad mobilization is not driven by economic crisis or jihadist violence (similarity 0.90)
• Counter-jihad mobilization is not explained by economic crisis or jihadist violence. (similarity 0.87)
• Anti-Islam mobilization forms a transnational organized political movement, not mere prejudice. (similarity 0.86)
• Anti-Muslim mobilizations form a transnational movement with distinct ideology and policy reach. (similarity 0.84)
• European counter-jihadism spans both populist parties and street movements. (similarity 0.84)
• Counter-jihad campaigns have spread across Western countries and infected mainstream politics. (similarity 0.82)
• A coordinated international counter-jihad movement shares strategies across borders (similarity 0.81)
• Counter-jihad ideology frames Islam as a hostile alien culture invading the west (similarity 0.81)
• Islamist groups are locally shaped and resist homogenizing categorization (similarity 0.81)
• The counterjihad movement moves ideas and money across the Atlantic (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Islamist groups arise from local conditions, not from anti-American plots #corroborates (0.90) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 376
• Anti-Muslim sentiment operates independently of local political ideology #contradicts (0.85)
• 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
• Islamophobia is produced by state action, not only cultural bias #qualifies (0.75)