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
Andrea Bila overviews her first report on the ten dominant narratives of Islamophobia in France for the Countering Islamophobia in Europe project Economic crisis of the early 1970s, growing unemployment that hit hard mainly the low-skilled working class immigrants and eventually laws restricting immigration voted
Luis Manuel Hernandez Aguilar summarises his first report for the CIK project, looking at the ten most dominant counter-narratives to Islamophobia in Germany. The recent federal elections and the rise of the far-right Islamophobic political party Alternative for Germany (AFD) as the third most influential political
Matilda Chatzipanagiotou and Iason Zarikos overview their first report in Greece for the Countering Islamophobic Narratives in Europe project. The first workstream of the CIK Project resulted in the identification of the most dominant narratives of Islamophobia in Greece and their ideological origins. Print
Zsuzsanna Vidra overviews her first report on Hungary for the Countering Islamophobic Narratives in Europe project. The Hungarian Muslim population is estimated to be between 0.1-0.3%. Moreover, Islam and Muslims as a topic of discussion and consequently Islamobhobic discourses had not been present, or when apparent such
In contemporary Portugal, Lusotropicalism – which constructs the country as particularly tolerant towards the formerly colonized and grounds this assumption on a historical discourse of miscegenation and benevolent colonialism – has permeated the public debate on the colonial legacies. Muslims have been key subjects in
Karel Čada and Veronika Frantová overview their first report on Islamophobia in Czech Republic / Czechia. In July 2017, Czech social media was flooded with photographs of women who had worn the burkini at a water park near Prague. Aquapalace operator’s tolerance of the burkini sparked sharp complaints.
IHRC provides specific information on the institutionalised discrimination affecting Muslims in France
