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Soldiers of a Different God - How the Counter-Jihad Movement Created Mayhem, Murder and the Trump Presidency (Hardcover)
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Soldiers of a Different God - How the Counter-Jihad Movement Created Mayhem, Murder and the Trump Presidency (Hardcover)
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They make an odd gang: football thugs, gay activists, French
celebrities, Jewish academics, uneasy alliances of feminists and
conservatives, politicians hungry for power. The only thing they
have in common is a belief that Islam will overrun the West. The
movement was born with 9/11. As coalition troops invaded
Afghanistan and Iraq, iconoclastic journalists like Oriana Fallaci
and Melanie Phillips warned that Muslims in the West were a
potential enemy within. They got their ideological ammunition from
a mysterious woman called Bat Ye'or, a Jewish-Egyptian ideologue
with a career on the fringes of academia. An online underground
community spread the message. Soon sites like Jihadwatch and Little
Green Footballs were warning the world that Islam posed a threat to
democracy. In 2007 the Counter-Jihad Conference in Brussels brought
activists face-to-face with mentors like Bat Ye'or for the first
time. Then British conference attendees hooked up with football
hooligans and an Evangelical Christian millionaire to form the
English Defence League. Similar anti-Islamic groups blossomed
across Europe - until a massacre by Norwegian Anders Breivik
disillusioned many. The Arab Spring, a series of Islamist terrorist
attacks and the European migrant crisis reinvigorated the movement.
By this time prominent American counter-jihad bloggers had jobs
writing for Breitbart News, a right-wing news outlet with the ear
of a New York billionaire considering a run in the 2016
Presidential election. Donald J. Trump would get elected on a
platform of populist nationalism and counter-jihad policies.
Far-right movements across Europe took note. Christopher Othen
weaves together current events and history into a compelling
account of the counter-jihad movement.
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