Articles
This section lists articles by project experts and other contributors on the subject of anti-religious hate speech.
HOW A GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN CALLED UPON THE WORLD TO #STOPFUNDINGHATE
We recently spoke to Richard Wilson, the Director and co-founder of Stop Funding Hate, to find out more about their work.
A YEAR IN MEDIA MONITORING: REPORT 2018/19
Get The Trolls Out! has produced a report, authored by Dr. Verica Rupar, which looks at the first full year of media monitoring in the project.
HOW SOROS WAS TURNED INTO THE PERFECT ENEMY: FIDESZ'S CAMPAIGN CONSULTANT REVEALS THE BACKGROUND TO A CAMPAIGN
A propaganda campaign in Hungary reached its climax in July 2017 when billboards across the country carried adverts for the latest round of the Orbán government's National Consultation. The adverts featured the head of George Soros, with the text: “Let's not allow Soros to have the last laugh!" – bearing the implication that the businessman was about to attack Hungary.
TOP TROLLS OF 2018
These are the 5 cases of anti-religious hatred we've found to be the most interesting ones in the previous year.
ANTISEMITIC HATE AGAINST SOROS AS A COMMON DENOMINATOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL RIGHT
Billionaire and philanthropist George Soros is not only attacked by nationalists in Eastern Europe: Soros is said to be the head of a world-wide conspiracy for the oppression of the West by means of the presumed ethnic replacement of local populations.
HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE ISLAMOPHOBIA?
Over the past year, a video went viral of a 15 year old Syrian boy being “waterboarded” by his classmates in Northern England, and a car purposefully crashed into a crowd outside of a mosque in London. Islamophobia is on the rise across the country, with three out of five British Muslims reporting that they have experienced hate crimes.
ROD LIDDLE'S TRACK RECORD OF HATE SPEECH
Last month, Sunday Times columnist Rod Liddle came under fire for an article titled, Chip in and we’ll help Choudary on his way to Paradise—a commentary on British radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary that reads more like an Islamophobic rant than a column in a reputable newspaper.
FANTASTIC TROLLS AND HOW TO FIGHT THEM
There are many trolls out there on the internet, from a Hater Troll to a Holy Cause Troll, all with their own unique characteristics. Here is a line-up of all the prominent troll types and most importantly, how to fight them.
THE DEADLY CONSEQUENCES OF HATE SPEECH
Many in the Jewish community’s worst nightmare came to life on Saturday when an armed gunman stormed a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, murdering eleven worshippers. It is the worst attack on the Jewish community in US history, and comes after a steady rise in antisemitic incidents and rhetoric across the country and around the world.
WHEN ONLY 1 PERCENT OF VEILED FRENCH WOMEN GET A REPLY TO THEIR PHOTO CV, THAT'S A PROBLEM
Hajar El Jahidi, from Get The Trolls Out! partner European Forum of Muslim Women, wrote an article for the Middle East Eye discussing a recent co-authored an op-ed piece denouncing the discrimination faced by Muslim women in Europe in the jobs market, and the reaction to it. Being one of the authors of the op-ed piece, Hajar explains how one journalist from the French magazine Marianne claimed the piece was an organised attack on French secularism.