Articles
This section lists articles by project experts and other contributors on the subject of anti-religious hate speech.
How German Media Stigmatized Muslim Roma Communities, Through Its Own Misinformation
The German city of Göttingen has been struggling with a COVID-19 outbreak for several weeks. Many media outlets are blaming Muslim Roma communities, saying that the outbreak started from Eid al-Fitr celebrations and visits to mosques and hookah lounges. But is this true, or is it just racist?
BLACK, BLANC BEUR: HOW FRENCH SECULARISM SUPPRESSES IMPORTANT CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACE
How can France have a meaningful discussion about race if they can't even measure discrimination?
HOW RIGHT-WING RADICALS FUEL THE FEAR OF MUSLIMS
Right-wing actors have little of substance to contribute to the coronavirus crisis. The previous recipe of provocation, agitation, and populism is not very successful in times of COVID-19. However, Alternative für Deutschland (“Alternative for Germany”, AfD) and the like, insist on one thing: agitation against Muslims. Muslims’ fasting month, Ramadan, begins today, but the propaganda machine has been running for weeks.
WHY DE-PLATFORMING DAVID ICKE NEEDS TO HAPPEN NOW
Conspiracy theories often go hand-in-hand with hate speech against marginalised groups, as we have covered many times in the Get The Trolls Out! project. The most recent example of this is David Icke, who has become well-known in the mainstream in recent weeks by utilizing the COVID-19 pandemic to spread disinformation; however, antisemitism has been at the core of Icke’s work for a very long time.
MISINFORMATION THROUGH VISUALS
Out of context and off-topic: the stereotypes conveyed by images in the Belgian Media
BORDERLINE CASE: CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM ASYLUM SEEKERS ARE TREATED EXACTLY THE SAME
The guiding principle of the Hungarian government’s refugee policy is to differentiate between Christian “real refugees” who have been persecuted in their home country, and Muslim “dangerous refugees”. Our report looks how that works in practice.
RELIGIOUS HATRED DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
The current climate of fear and anxiety surrounding the coronavirus pandemic is acting as fertile ground for the dissemination of conspiracy theories and discriminatory discourses. Since the outbreak in Wuhan, Chinese people, and people of East Asian appearance more broadly, have been attacked and abused because they were seen as carriers of the virus. But as the infections spread across the world, specific religious and ethnic groups have also been targeted. These attacks range from shaming Muslims for allegedly failing to adhere to lockdown measures, to global conspiracies about Jewish people, drawing on historical prejudices and racist perceptions.
THE FAIRY TALE OF "THE INFLUENTIAL JEW"
Herold Peters-Hartmann is the chairman of the AfD (Alternative for Germany party) in Würzburg. In a video by MuslimTVDE, a project by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, he offers his perspective on Jews in Germany: They supposedly have "a lot of influence" is something that can be heard there among other things. Again and again, the AfD tries to position itself as a valiant fighter against antisemitism. But just recently, a study from Leipzig showed that antisemitic views are widespread among the voters of the radical right-wing party.
A PICTURE IS WORTH 1,000 WORDS: HOW STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY SHAPES UNCONSCIOUS BIAS
A picture is worth a thousand words--so why do we not think more carefully about stock photography?
HATE SPEECH AND EPIDEMIC IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET : COVID-19 CASE STUDY IN FRANCE
Since the beginning of 2020, a global infectious disease has shattered human social, economic and political life in many countries. As the epidemic expands, the online phenomena of hate speech connected to this global disease is growing.