World9/11 at 25: How the ‘War on Terror’ helped mainstream Europe’s far right
Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, the article argues that the Global War on Terror helped Europe’s far-right parties gain political prominence. Policies, wars and media narratives that cast Muslims as threats legitimised and broadened anti-Muslim racism, giving far-right Islamophobia greater electoral force.
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9/11 at 25: How the ‘War on Terror’ helped mainstream Europe’s far right
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