In countries around the world, anti-Muslim rhetoric and policies have become dangerously normalized ― in institutions, politics, media, and everyday life. The world’s Islamophobia problem also has a powerful knock-on effect, enabling broader anti-immigrant and white nationalist coalitions in many countries. In countries around the world, anti-Muslim rhetoric and policies have become dangerously normalized ― in institutions, politics, media, and everyday life. This view is not only wrong ― often part of a double standard involving white attackers ― but misses the threat of Islamophobia and white nationalism as an international network, extremism researchers warn. “It’s not an individualized type of violence.” When Officials Go Unpunished For Their Islamophobia Trump began peddling anti-Muslim vitriol well before he became president.

Source: Huffington Post March 17, 2019 20:03 UTC