Farid Hafez

Senior researcher with Georgetown University’s The Bridge Initiative

About the author

Senior researcher with Georgetown University’s The Bridge Initiative and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Limerick University.

The ‘War on Terror’ gave far-right Islamophobia legitimacy, reach and electoral force.

Attacks against the French Muslim community are on the rise as the French state doubles down on anti-Muslim racism.

Far-right leaders may be paying respects today, but their power reflects the growing threat of genocidal violence.

It is not the first time the country fixates on demonising a racialised group and blaming it for its crises.

The Austrian authorities’ moves towards banning ‘political Islam’ and criminalising the Brotherhood are ill-conceived.

The problem is the right-wing swing of the major establishment parties.

The campaign against George Soros has fueled a dangerous symbiosis between anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.