Official green-scare policy creates the terrain on which far-right conspiracy theories grow

Evidence

As Hilary Aked, Melissa Jones, and David Miller, authors of the important Spinwatch report, argue, official counterterrorism and counterextremism policy sets the terrain on which the counterjihad movement and the Far Right can operate. Indeed, various models of radicalization combined with the Obama administration’s Countering Violent Extremism initiative put a spotlight on “homegrown terrorism.” This “green scare” then created fertile grounds for the growth and expanded reach of the conspiracy theories of the Right. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 737

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s MOC thread: this is the state-policy channel by which ‘green scare’ counter-radicalization fed the far right. Links to earlier claims about Obama’s CVE and the red-scare-to-green-scare transfer (ch39, ch45). — connects to: Liberal anti-racist rhetoric licenses and amplifies far-right conspiracy theories. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 721; Liberal and conservative Islamophobia jointly enable far-right conspiracy theories — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 721; Liberal Islamophobia legitimizes and amplifies right-wing anti-Muslim conspiracy theories (+3 more)
• ADDENDUM: Supports the thesis channels question: institutional radicalization policy, operating 2000s-2010s, fed 2020 far-right conspiracy growth.

Broader Connections

• Liberal Islamophobia legitimizes and amplifies right-wing anti-Muslim conspiracy theories #corroborates (0.88)
• Liberal and conservative Islamophobia jointly enable far-right conspiracy theories #corroborates (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 721
• Liberal framing of the good-bad Muslim divide enables right-wing conspiracy theories #corroborates (0.82)
• Liberal homegrown-terror hysteria amplified right-wing Islamophobia #corroborates (0.78) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 671
• A fabricated mosque statistic spread from far right into mainstream media #exemplifies (0.75)