The Hysteria of Cultural Racism
The French Muslims are afraid right now. Politicians, intellectuals, and the media are incessantly speaking on them. This phenomenon is…
Populism: The New Wave of “Magic” in Europe?
The country that elected Macron for a revolution is now pushing him to the edge for another revolution.
What does the French Democracy Crisis Indicate?
Macron represents himself as the voice of the liberals against authoritarian nationalists for the 2019 European Parliament elections. However, the…
The End of History or the End of Democracy in Austria?
Departing from the Japanese-American political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s contention in his “The End of History” thesis that liberal democracy is…
Germany: From the Refugee Problem to the Crisis of the Liberal Democratic System
The current crisis in Germany is a representation of what is also happening in other European countries governed by liberal…
Dual-Citizenship of Turks: A Populist Instrument in German Politics?
Politicians in Germany with certain future career goals regularly and insistently address similar populist and Turkey related topics. This is…
The French Islam
Associating a terror group with Islam is scandalous. Would have DAESH been called a “humanist terror group” had the group…
The 300 French Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Just as France did not act with religious motifs while colonizing Africa, it also did not employ such motifs in…
Freedom of Religion as a Pre-condition?
Statements made by politicians and similar moves in order to gain potential votes from far-right, anti-Islamic and populist circles just…
The Hunchback of Germany: Right Populism
The question has to be asked again: What does Germany stand for? Freedom and liberalism or populism? Is this the…
The problem of minority representation in Europe
Interestingly however, the report emphasizes that descriptive representation (the number of Muslim MPs) does not directly equate to substantive representation…
Who Decides Whether Islam Belongs to Germany or Not?
If a democratic state accepts that the discourse of right-wing extremists will shape the country’s future perception of what belongs…
Germany’s Muslims urge solidarity after mosque attacks
Germany’s Muslim organizations have called on all citizens to unite and speak up against the recent wave of violence targeting…
French Secularism: Towards Republican Authoritarianism?
If French secularism turns into full-fledged republican authoritarianism, as the course of events illustrate, Islamophobia will just be another worrisome…
French Mayor bans “anti-republican” meals
As of Monday 15 January, Mayor of Beaucaire – a town in the south of France – Julien Sanchez, and…
Suu Kyi runs past Trump to win Islamophobia Award 2017
The Islamophobia Awards is hosted annually by the Islamic Human Rights Commission, a non-profit organization established in 1997. It hosted…
Hijab-wearing school girls to face questioning in UK
Head of the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) and the chief inspector of schools, Amanda Spielman, announced that Britain’s…
ODIHR publishes 2016 hate crime data: 5,998 incidents reported
On the International Day for Tolerance, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) published hate crime data of…
