Shrinking Spaces

Defining extremism: What does 2019 hold for British Muslims?

Institutionalised Islamophobia has contributed to hate crimes, discrimination and the exclusion of Muslims from political spaces, argues Arzu Merali   Where to start or finish a year’s overview of Islamophobia in the UK? We can focus on the comments of various public figures, not least

Reversing the trend: countering Islamophobic narratives in France

Andrea Bila overviews her second report on France for the Countering Islamophobia in Europe project Since the victory of the presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron in May 2017, generally interpreted as the triumph of the republican spirit of brotherhood over the hate filled ideology and rhetoric

Denying Islamophobia Won’t Make it Go Away: Germany

Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar summarises his second report for the CIK project, looking at the ten most dominant counter-narratives to Islamophobia in Germany.   At the height of the political campaigns leading to the Federal elections of 2017 (May – October), I interviewed a wide