Tag: Islamophobia
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Fascism knocks on France’s door this election… and this time it may knock it down
ANALYSIS With two days to go before French voters head to the polls, far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen stands just 2.5 percentage points away from victory in the first round of the presidential election (IFOP). Yes, you read that correctly. Never has a far-right candidate polled this close to the winner’s spot, not even when […]
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On Islamophobia, enlightened France is spoilt for choice in the 2022 election
CN: Islamophobia, xenophobia OPINION Don’t be misled by the French liberal outrage at Eric Zemmour. The foundations of his presidential campaign, swollen with the pus of supremacist yearnings and anti-Muslim intent, were laid long ago when a dangerous rhetoric was co-opted by the very voices now denouncing his campaign. The process of legitimising some of […]
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Orbán’s crusader rhetoric and EU migration policy: a spurious discord
CN: this article contains discussion of xenophobia and Islamophobia As Afghanistan reeled from the dramatic takeover by the Taliban and thousands of people made desperate attempts to flee to safety, Europe’s enfant terrible Victor Orbán was already making it clear they wouldn’t find it in his backyard. Following a joint session in Budapest on 8 […]
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‘This rhetoric has resulted in genocide’: Bosnian community speaks out against Dodik’s speech in Budapest
CN: this article contains discussion of genocide, war, Islamophobia, xenophobia, misogyny and violence REPORT Last week at the Fourth Budapest Demographic Summit, the Serb member of Bosnia’s Presidency, Milorad Dodik, called for European leaders to protect a “Christian Europe” from “migrants from the Middle East”. The Bosnian-Serb leader also claimed that “Muslims will never leave […]
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Neglected state schools and far-right rhetoric: Macron’s legacy will be defined by his vanity politics
OPINION The quality of state schools in France has become so poor that working-class parents are turning to bursaries at Catholic private schools for their children’s education. As the government passes its ‘Islamist separatism’ law, these parents from France’s quartiers are battling a festering yet seemingly unacknowledged form of socio-economic segregation that threatens their children’s educational […]
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