Main features of the modern environmental agenda of the Alternative for Germany by A. D. Lisenkova

“…First of all, the author defines the specifics of the party’s evolution outside the environmental context to demonstrate the gradual enlargement of the spheres of party interests and the transition from an exclusively economically oriented liberal conservative Eurosceptic course to far-right and populist, anti-immigration and Islamophobic tendencies. Then the article illustrates the important role of the common European environmental context, where actions to combat climate change are getting more prioritized. …”
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ONLINE AND OFFLINE MANIFESTATION OF HINDUTVA IDEOLOGY IN INDIA DURING THE COVID-19 SPREAD by Fahad Nabeel, Maryam Raashed

“…The online disinformation ecosystem of Hindutva extremist groups against minorities used trending campaigns, memes, and sharing of false content. They posted Islamophobic content so extensively that the impact of online disinformation contributed to offline harm to minorities in the form of violent attacks and social boycotts. …”
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Theorising the Islamic State: A Decolonial Perspective by Nkululeko Majozi

“…I critically evaluate the dominant Western view within the debate that conceptualises IS as an “Islamic” terrorist organisation and a product of the “backwardness” of Islam and argue that such a conceptualisation of IS is rooted in a racist and Islamophobic Western epistemological narrative which seeks to create a “natural” link between terrorism and Islam. …”
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Love Jihad and the Governance of Gender and Intimacy in Hindu Nationalist Statecraft by Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Alf Gunvald Nilsen

“…What role does the Islamophobic theory of “love jihad” play in the politics of Hindu nationalist statecraft—the legal codification of Hindu nationalist ideology—in India today? …”
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The After-life of Social Movements by Purbali Sengupta

“…The BJP displayed spectacular political opportunism during this Pandemic by prescribing traditional health practices to gain a hegemonic sway over the masses who became objects in this pedagogical discourse, often coupled with islamophobic propaganda birthed conspiracy theories binarily structured on ‘Otherness’. …”
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Political Communication and Religion: Chance of Association by Ekmel GEÇER

“…Here it is possible to associate the tendency relating religion to violence, with the latest global “anti-religion” movements which mostly rooted at islamophobic perspective. Yet, using religion in political communication or handling it as a way of propaganda is more visible in Middle Eastern countries although rarely seen in Western ones as well. …”
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Political Rhetoric and Hate Speech in the Case of Shamima Begum by Alexander Murphy

“…The divisiveness of this case was reflected in partisan political argument within the UK, and accompanied by high volumes of toxic and Islamophobic social media discussion alongside input from a variety of UK politicians. …”
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„Us” and „them” in the language of conservative islamophobia - referential and predicational strategies in Polish right-wing press discourse on the migration crisis in 2015 by Adam Konopka

“…As Vincent Geisser noted in his book, La Nouvelle Islamophobie, islamophobia can be defined as a form of cultural racism which puts emphasis especially on religion (Islam) as the agent of distinction between ‘Us’ and ‘Them’, based usually on a phantasmatic idea of Islam and Muslims. The islamophobic phenomenon increased radically in Poland during the peak of the migration crisis in the second half of 2015, following numerous press articles and columns which provide a background for such prejudice. …”
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Islamophobia and Proximities to Whiteness: Organizing Outside of the Brown Muslim Subject by Nadiya N. Ali, Lucy El-Sherif, Hawa Y. Mire

“…Leveraging an auto-ethnographic approach, we provide first-person narratives of Islamophobic encounters from our respective geopolitical and social locations to deconstruct and delineate an intersectional understanding of Islamophobia.…”
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PARADOKS DEMOKRASI : PERKEMBANGAN KOMUNITAS ANTI-ISLAM DI BELANDA by , AYU KARTIKASARI, , Drs. Dafri Agussalim, MA

“…The research of this thesis will be focus on the emergence and the growth of Islamophobic or anti-Islamic communities in The Netherlands which is considered as one of the paradoxes of democracy, by observing the two Dutch political parties with anti-Islamic (and anti-Immigrant) ideology, LPF and PVV. …”

Religious Fields and Subfields: Transnational Connections, Identities, and Reactive Transnationalism by Luma Issa AlMasarweh

“…Yet, Arab Americans, especially Muslim Arab Americans, have been progressively encountering overt anti-Arab and Islamophobic sentiments for two decades, since 11 September. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: T.V. REED, "THE BLOOMSBURY INTRODUCTION TO POSTMODERN REALIST FICTION: RESISTING MASTER NARRATIVES", NEW YORK: BLOOMSBURY, 2021, 274 P. by Laura WALKER SAVU

“…As such, these narratives stand in sharp contrast to, on the one hand, “distorted versions of postmodernism” that have been dismissed as “empty formalism” (10), as “obscure and cynical worldplay, lacking both substance and moral values” (2, 3), and, on the other, to “white supremacist, misogynist, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, and Islamophobic discourses” that have been on the rise in the last decade or so (2-3). …”
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Expedient, Affective, and Sustained Solidarities? Mediated Contestations of Islamophobia in the Case of Brexit, the Christchurch Terror Attack, and the COVID-19 Pandemic by Elizabeth Poole, Eva H. Giraud, John E. Richardson, Ed de Quincey

“…Finally, in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, we analyze how sustained solidarity networks arose through antagonistic exchanges with nationalist movements that propagated Islamophobic misinformation. Yet our longitudinal and comparative methodology allowed for a more complicated picture to emerge, which troubled existing typologies of digital solidarity. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: T.V. REED, "THE BLOOMSBURY INTRODUCTION TO POSTMODERN REALIST FICTION: RESISTING MASTER NARRATIVES", NEW YORK: BLOOMSBURY, 2021, 274 P. by Laura WALKER SAVU

“…As such, these narratives stand in sharp contrast to, on the one hand, “distorted versions of postmodernism” that have been dismissed as “empty formalism” (10), as “obscure and cynical worldplay, lacking both substance and moral values” (2, 3), and, on the other, to “white supremacist, misogynist, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, and Islamophobic discourses” that have been on the rise in the last decade or so (2-3). …”
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The Aurat March (2018-2022) in the Context of Gendered-Islamophobia: A Case of Muslim Women’s Identity in Pakistan by Syeda Mehmoona Khushbakht

“…The research paper seeks to argue how Aurat March, influenced by secular modern trends transmit Islamophobic stereotypes towards Islam: Muslim women, in general, and Pakistan in specific context. …”
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OIC and IPHRC Efforts to Counter Islamophobia by Hacı Ali Açıkgül

“…Instead, it is transformed into a systematic anti-Muslim rhetoric of right-wing extremists propagated through well-designed and equally well-orchestrated media campaigns to achieve well-defined political gains. Although Islamophobic sentiments have gained traction, particularly after the events of September 11th, their origins can be traced back to much earlier periods, giving rise to problematic perceptions. …”
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Medıa Propaganda Agaınst Indıa’s Muslım Communıty In The Post-Covıd-19 by Rifqi Fahmi, Ali Maksum, Reevany Bustami

“…This situation shows an Islamophobic environment, as both mainstream news media and social media discriminate against the Muslim community without any actual facts on the ground. …”
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The Jew and the Odalisque: Two Tropes Lost on the Way from Classic Orientalism to Islamophobia by Ivan Kalmar

“…<p class="first" id="d50813e67">Contemporary Islamophobic discourses lack two of the important figures of classic orientalism: (1) the “Jew” as an “oriental” ethnoreligious figure akin to “Muslim,” and (2) of the “harem” as an eroticized trope of male domination. …”
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Media framing on Muslims and Islam in Christchurch mosque attack : a content analysis of The Press and New York Times online news by Lim, Lai Hoon

“…Despite abundant studies criticising Islamophobic representations of Muslims in Western media, there is scant literature examining the coverage of terrorism act where perpetrators are non-Muslims and victims are Muslims. …”
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The Role Of The New Zealand Government In Handling Terrorism Through The Media by Andi Moh. Ghalib, Anang Puji Utama, M Adnan Madjid, Pujo Widodo

“…Terrorism cases that occur based on the existence of Islamophobic culture and immigrants entering New Zealand also have a connection with the role of mass media in a cause that concerns politics and government. …”
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