Islamophobia

Book Reviews

Nasser Kurdy and David Tucker. A Reply to Hate: Forgiving My Attacker. Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2021.

There are a host of studies on how the radical right mobilises, spreads its message, and is policed. Unfortunately, there is far too little analysis of the impact that hate…

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6 min

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‘Britain First’: Harmless Patriots, or Trump’s Heroes and Russia’s Dupes? (Part II)

Part 2: Modernisation, Funding & International Activism Attempts to Soften the BF Image Overall, BF presents a bizarre, schizoid image of a party that claims to be very strong on…

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8 min

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‘Britain First’: Harmless Patriots, or Trump’s Heroes and Russia’s Dupes? (Part 1)

Part 1: Origins, Ideology & Activism The far-right political party Britain First (BF) was originally formed in 2011 as an activist group campaigning on a white supremacist, anti-immigration and anti-Islam…

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5 min

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Testimonial injustice and the far right

There are several reasons why anti-Islamic sentiment, better known as Islamophobia, has escalated in the twenty-first century. “Trigger” attacks such as 9/11 and 7/7, the European migrant crisis, the rise…

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Stereotype threat and the opponents of far right demonstrations

The English Defence League In March 2009 the Sunni Muslim group Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaa protested against the Royal Anglian Regiment’s homecoming parade that was organised in Luton (UK). In…

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Preventing progress: tracing the coloniality of Britain’s counterterrorism strategy

Introduction Since the inception of the War on Terror, individual states have devised their own respective countering violent extremism (CVE) strategies, but none perhaps as controversial as the UK’s Prevent…

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4 min

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Freedom of Research in the Age of Populism (Part 1: The French Case)

According to French anthropologist Didier Fassin, there is a “reactionary wind blowing over France”, which is affecting the country’s political and intellectual life, and distracts the public from major economic…

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8 min

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Transatlantic Islamophobia: PEGIDA before and during the pandemic

The acronym PEGIDA has been associated with grassroots anti-Islam protest for some years. In fact, the group – full name ‘Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the (Christian) West’ –…

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“My grandpa was murdered in a concentration camp, my daughter shot in Hanau.”- The role of Nazi ideology in radical right terror in contemporary Germany

On 19 February 2021, Germany commemorated the anniversary of the right-wing terror attack in Hanau, in which Gökhan Gültekin, Sedat Gürbüz, Said Nesar Hashemi, Mercedes Kierpacz, Hamza Kurtović, Vili Viorel…

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3 min

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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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Nasser Kurdy and David Tucker. A Reply to Hate: Forgiving My Attacker. Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2021.

‘Britain First’: Harmless Patriots, or Trump’s Heroes and Russia’s Dupes? (Part II)

‘Britain First’: Harmless Patriots, or Trump’s Heroes and Russia’s Dupes? (Part 1)

Testimonial injustice and the far right

Stereotype threat and the opponents of far right demonstrations

Preventing progress: tracing the coloniality of Britain’s counterterrorism strategy

Freedom of Research in the Age of Populism (Part 1: The French Case)

Transatlantic Islamophobia: PEGIDA before and during the pandemic

“My grandpa was murdered in a concentration camp, my daughter shot in Hanau.”- The role of Nazi ideology in radical right terror in contemporary Germany

Nasser Kurdy and David Tucker. A Reply to Hate: Forgiving My Attacker. Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2021.

Nathaniël D. B. Kunkeler. Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands: Myth-Creation and Respectability, 1931-40. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.

CARR Reform Statement

Webinar Series: The Future of Ideologies (Michael Freeden)

Response to “Beware the Anti-Fascists, for they have become what they oppose”