Anders Breivik and The Rise of Islamophobia

Bangstad, Sindre

doi:10.5040/9781350218468

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“…Most of the informants appeared to be restrained and refrained from publishing religious content to avoid social exclusion, conflict and religious discussions. This can be related to other studies of how Muslim informants have experienced Islamophobia (Bangstad, 2014, 2015; Bruckner, 2018; Morgan & Poynting, 2016; Nyhagen & Halsaa, 2016; Synnes, 2019).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 63%

“…He justified this by his career—he was afraid that he would be considered extreme. Recent studies (Marzouki et al, 2016; Sandberg et al, 2019) point out that young Muslims experience being associated with extremists and an expectation from society that they have to denounce the violence carried out by extremist groups in the name of Islam or other forms of political violence that have affected Western countries since the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 (Bangstad, 2014, 2015; Morgan & Poynting, 2016). This may have consequences for young people’s self-presentation on social media.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Role of Religion in Young Muslims’ and Christians’ Self-presentation on Social Media

Trysnes

Synnes

2021

YOUNG

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This article examines how young Muslims and Christians with ethnic minority backgrounds in Oslo reflect on their use of social media as a way to present themselves and their religiosity. The study draws upon Arlie Hochschild’s concepts of feeling rules and emotional labour and Erving Goffman’s typology of frontstage and backstage behaviour to analyse how young Muslims and Christian informants present themselves on social media. For minority groups, these strategies can be used to negotiate religion and create a different image. This study shows that both Christian and Muslim youth with minority backgrounds use different strategies to present their religiosity. Even though all the informants want to portray themselves as religious, they carefully consider what type of religious content they share to avoid social exclusion, conflict and religious discussions.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 63%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Religion in Young Muslims’ and Christians’ Self-presentation on Social Media

Trysnes

Synnes

2021

YOUNG

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“…This has been largely due to the focus of this research being on contemporary European terrorism, with the most high-profile attacks in the last 10 years being carried out predominantly by Islamic terrorists; for a comparable non-Islamic terror attack in Europe we would have to go back to the 2011 attack by Anders Breivik. 51 In the USA this terror profile is extremely different, with the majority of terror attacks being carried out by non-Islamist, white terrorists. 52 It would therefore be highly informative in future research to examine whether terror attacks carried out by non-Islamist terrorists have the same affect upon people's attitudes or whether they differ, on participants in the USA and also in Europe.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Right-Wing Authoritarian and Explicit Prejudice Attitude Responses to the Paris Terror Attacks: A Within-Subjects Analysis

Sullivan

Hutchings

2020

Terrorism and Political Violence

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When a terror attack occurs people appear to be prepared, in the short term, to be more accepting of authoritarian sanctions against outgroup members, particularly if sanctions are targeted against members of the outgroup perceived as responsible for the attack. The current study examined 42 British participants' scores on measures of Right wing authoritarianism (RWA) and explicit prejudice (EP) before, within 36 hours of, and one year after the November 2015 Paris terror attacks. As higher scores on RWA measures have been linked to considering the world as dangerous and threatening, and desiring that authority control and punish transgressors of societal norms, and higher EP scores have been linked to negative perceptions of outgroups, we hypothesized that participants' scores on both measures would increase immediately after the terror attack. Analyses showed small but significant increases in RWA and EP scores immediately after the attacks, particularly for those initially scoring lower on these measures, but scores on both measures had returned to baseline levels one year later. These findings from a within-subjects sample support recent between-subjects research suggesting that RWA and EP attitudes are impacted in the short term by reported terrorist attacks.

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“…Norway, a country that is deemed as tolerant, also witnessed a hate crime against Muslims by Anders Behring Breivik which resulted in the deaths of seventy-seven innocent people. Breivik stated that he was against multiculturalism and foreigners, and that Islam is a dangerous religion (Bangstad, 2014).…”

Section: Spread Of Fear Of Islamisation In Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Admission of Turkey into the European Union: “Does Religion Matter?”

Aryal

Nair

Bhattarai

2021

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Meždunar. otnoš.

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With the rising fear of Islamisation in Europe and increasing Islamist sentiment in Turkey, the issue of religion in the context of integration of Turkey into the European Union remains relevant. After a long-lasted wait and continuous negotiations, Turkey seems to be moving further away from getting accepted in the EU. The research focuses on the religious factor in this unrelenting friction between the two regions / entities and answers the question as to why the EU and Turkey should consider religion as one of the variables in the European integration. The analysis is done with the use of primary and secondary sources with special focus on Samuel Huntingtons realism-inspired work Clash of the Civilization. Turkish sources were used for better understanding the dynamics of Turkey. In terms of methodological approach the research is done with using the content analysis and contemporary observation of socio-political scenario and behavioral changes that the EU and Turkey going through. The authors conclude that there is no proper mechanism to consider religion as a variable, but psychologically it is still playing a major role in both the EU and Turkey. The authors believe that the EU and Turkey should discuss the religious dimension of integration while talking other dynamics.

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Anders Breivik and The Rise of Islamophobia

Cited by 101 publications

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The Role of Religion in Young Muslims’ and Christians’ Self-presentation on Social Media

The Role of Religion in Young Muslims’ and Christians’ Self-presentation on Social Media

Right-Wing Authoritarian and Explicit Prejudice Attitude Responses to the Paris Terror Attacks: A Within-Subjects Analysis

Admission of Turkey into the European Union: “Does Religion Matter?”

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