The US counter-jihad movement exercises direct influence on national policy
Evidence
The political influence of the US counter-jihad movement is far greater than that of its European counterpart. During the 2016 US presidential election, the Center for Security Policy supplied advisors to Republican candidates including Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. When Trump announced his support for a ban on Muslim immigration to the US he did so citing a poll published by the CSP. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 536
Categorization
- XREF: The Center for Security Policy’s advisory influence connects to the report’s argument that counter-jihad ideology has entered the US mainstream via the Republican party. — connects to: Anti-Muslim mobilizations form a transnational movement with distinct ideology and policy reach. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 545; Counter-jihad campaigns have spread across Western countries and infected mainstream politics. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 146
Related
- Counter-jihad campaigns have spread across Western countries and infected mainstream politics. (similarity 0.84)
- Anti-Muslim mobilizations form a transnational movement with distinct ideology and policy reach. (similarity 0.83)
- The counterjihad movement moves ideas and money across the Atlantic (similarity 0.82)
- US counterjihadism operates through professional advocacy organizations rather than street movements (similarity 0.79)