^{#smrgKİTABEVİ} IRCICA Reports on Extremism : Anti-Muslim Extremism in Europe Extremism - 2001

This report looks at the current spread of anti-Muslim extremism in Europe. It defines anti-Muslim extremism as a social and political world-view that targets Muslim minorities in specificandEurope's multicultural and diverse societies together with its democratic foundations in general. After providinga definition ofanti-Muslim extremism, it shows how anti-Muslim extremist movementsarecooperating within Europe,as wellasbeyond,on aglobal scale. It looks at actors and discourses; and how discourses are made hegemonic and transferred from the margins and fringe extremist groups to the wider public sphere. The analysis shows theeffectsof thesediscourseson theviolation of human rightsand Muslim citizens by banning certain Muslim religious practices, violatingfreedom of religion,attacking mosquesandviolatingthefreedom of personality by attacking Muslim women. This report reveals how anti-Muslim extremism is organized within a small minority of far right groups and slowly became the “new normal” in most of Europe's societies.