Far-right leaders exploit media-built Islamophobic climate to gain power

Evidence

What is interesting is the way that Griffin acknowledges how ‘it’s the thing the newspaper editors sell newspapers with’: Muslims as threat, Muslims as other, Muslims as against ‘our’ way of life. As Griffin put it on another occasion, ‘We should be positioning ourselves to take advantage for our own political ends of the growing wave of public hostility to Islam currently being whipped up by the mass media’. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 473

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The far right adopted anti-Muslim rhetoric as a strategic path to electoral power — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 471; Islamophobic fringe politicians have become mainstream coalition power-brokers — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 519; Islamophobic campaign rhetoric is traded for votes and converted into policy — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 57 (+12 more)

Related

• The far right adopted anti-Muslim rhetoric as a strategic path to electoral power (similarity 0.88)
• Liberal and conservative Islamophobia jointly enable far-right conspiracy theories (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobic propaganda moves right-wing to mainstream to center (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia spans liberal and conservative mainstreams, not just the fringe right (similarity 0.83)
• Homegrown terrorism hysteria enabled far-right Islamophobes to seize the national debate. (similarity 0.83)
• European Islamophobia has moved from the far right into the political mainstream. (similarity 0.83)
• Right-wing Islamophobes are inside the establishment, not fringe infiltrators (similarity 0.83)
• Right-wing politicians stoked a clash-of-civilizations narrative that globally increased Islamophobia. (similarity 0.82)
• War on Terror Islamophobia empowered populist demagogues to seize power against Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• Liberal homegrown-terror hysteria amplified right-wing Islamophobia (similarity 0.81)
• Right-wing Islamophobes are structurally embedded rather than marginal figures (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobic fringe politicians have become mainstream coalition power-brokers (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobic power can deploy oppositional tactics to advance Muslim marginalization (similarity 0.81)
• Progressive media also contain liberal Islamophobia despite hosting dissenting voices (similarity 0.81)
• Liberal reports falsely frame Islamophobia as fringe religious intolerance, not mainstream racism (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• War on Terror Islamophobia empowered populist demagogues to seize power against Muslims #corroborates (0.90)
• Homegrown terrorism hysteria enabled far-right Islamophobes to seize the national debate. #corroborates (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 511
• Media discourse frames Islamophobia as increasing and institutional. #corroborates (0.85) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 630
• Islamophobic fringe politicians have become mainstream coalition power-brokers #expands (0.82) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 519
• Explicit Islamophobia has become an effective electoral strategy #expands (0.82) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 508
• Right-wing politicians stoked a clash-of-civilizations narrative that globally increased Islamophobia. #expands (0.82) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 354
• Islamophobic campaign rhetoric is traded for votes and converted into policy #expands (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 57
• European Islamophobia has moved from the far right into the political mainstream. #expands (0.80) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 480
• Anti-Muslim fear-mongering empowered by right-wing foundations fuels mainstream hatred. #expands (0.80) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 626
• Centrist moves against Muslims can legitimize far-right parties rather than weaken them #expands (0.80) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 494
• Right-wing Islamophobes are structurally embedded rather than marginal figures #expands (0.78) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 34
• New racist rhetoric lets far-right groups deny racism while demarcating Muslims #expands (0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 464
• The ‘Islamic fundamentalism’ discourse was born from a media-driven agenda around Khomeini’s Iran #expands (0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 219
• Islamophobia predates organized networks and serves structural functions across the political spectrum #complicates (0.72)