COVID-19 Drives Conspiracy Theories and Islamophobia
The COVID-19 pandemic has been used as a weapon by the radical right in promoting conspiracy theories. For the past decade, I have been researching the impact of Islamophobia on social…
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The Similarities In Far-Right Islamophobia And Anti-Semitism
In the modern radical right, there are several parallels between their Islamophobic and anti-Semitic narratives. Anti-Semitism in the West has a long and awful history stretching back centuries. However, although…
“William the Conquered 2066”: The English The Turner Diaries?
Introduction Beginning in the mid-1970s, The Turner Diaries was released in sequential instalments of the white supremacist magazine Attack!. Written by William Luther Pierce, founder of National Alliance, under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald, The…
Impacts of Islamophobia on Some Muslims in Two Western Countries
From the wide range of studies, reports and publications, from such bodies as SETA[1],[2] and academics [3](many of them CARR Fellows), it is evident that Islamophobia in both Britain and…
Conversation with an Imam: being Muslim in Post-Brexit UK
With the anniversary of the Christchurch Mosque attack approaching, and following Brexit, is the Muslim community in the UK living in fear? s the United Kingdom faces a post-Brexit reality…
Islamophobia in Sri Lanka or the Sterilization Obsession
Coined in the Runnymede Trust’s seminal report in 1997, the neologism of “Islamophobia” has been endlessly used to express the irrational hostility towards Muslims and Islam. This antagonism has been…
Halal Hysteria: How Outrage About M&S Ready Meals Co-opted Radical Right Rhetoric
The radical right is once again using the fact a food retailer has begun selling halal meat as an excuse to allege “creeping sharia law.” In October, M&S announced that…
Radical-Right Demonization of Soleimani and Iran: Islamophobic Weaponry in the Public Sphere
“We all know Iran, don’t we? Or at least we think we do”. So said John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor, on air in the early 1990s. A veteran Iran…
Reconfiguring Islamophobia and the Radical Right: a decade in retrospect
My new book, “Reconfiguring Islamophobia: a radical rethinking of a contested concept” (Palgrave Macmillan) marks a decade since the publication of my first book on the topic (“Islamophobia”, Ashgate). Through…
Jekyll-and-Hyde: What Creates a Far-Right Supporter? Part 2.
Part 1 of this blog summarised current psychological theories relevant to understanding far-right personalities and behaviour. The following sections summarise the data on three non-violent far-right supporters, and analyse to…