While the far-right has been spreading anti-Muslim messages for centuries now, the centrist-right (EPP) and liberal parties (LREM) are implementing these policies Farid Hafez | The writer is a visiting professor of International Studies at Williams College, Massachusetts, and a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s The Bridge Initiative. ISTANBUL On a global level, the unanimous […]
National Association of Muslim Police want the term ‘Islamist’ dropped from counter terrorism policing Counter-terrorism policing has been labelled Islamophobic by the National Association of Muslim Police. And it is now calling for the scrapping of the term ‘Islamist’ after claiming it unfairly stigmatises Islam. Alex Gent, Chairman of NAMP, also says Islamophobia remains an […]
FRANCE’S PROBLEM WITH FAR-RIGHT HATE AND EXTREMISM IS GROWING
Anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim extremist groups have infiltrated their hateful ideas into France’s political mainstream. Last month, the organization I founded, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, released a report showing a worrying number of far-right hate and extremist groups in France. Given that far-right extremism has been in the spotlight and extremist political parties […]