Ten years ago, many people would have doubted that the leader of the right-wing Lega Nord would one day become minister of interior and vice-premier minister. Similar, hardly anyone would have believed that the spin doctor of the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party would become minister of interior. And it was hard to predict ten years […]
Austrian McCarthyism: banning symbols
While the eyes of the public are on Austria’s EU Council Presidency and the issue of immigration, nearly nobody takes notice of the introduction of a McCarthyism that could again serve as an example to be followed by other regimes. Read full op-ed here
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The Far Right in Europe: How promising is Steve Bannon’s European organization ‘The Movement’?
“Patriots of the world, unite!” were the words of Steve Bannon speaking to the delegates of the Front National’s (today Rassemblement National) party convention in Lille in March 2018. Saying this, Bannon clearly stepped beyond his invention of what became the winning slogans for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign — “America First” and “Make America Great […]
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Bavarian polls and Islamophobia in German political campaigning
My analysis before the Bavarian elections. Read full op-ed here
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Chemnitz: Germany’s urgent cry to fight racism
Grossly dehumanizing act of hounding people who look ‘different’ has to be evaluated at the backdrop not only of growing far right political activism but also general radical discourse. Read full op-ed here
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Europa rückt nach rechts
Europa rückt nach rechts. Grenzsicherheit und Abschottung dominieren zunehmend die Migrationspolitik der Europäischen Union. Im Innern setzen rechte Parteien auf eine symbolträchtige Identitätspolitik. Hier zum vollständigen Kommentar
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Banning the Hijab in Austria
My latest analysis of the Austrian government’s attempt to ban the Hijab. Read full analysis here
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Avusturya’da Başörtülü Kadınlar Nefretin Öncelikli Kurbanı
Avusturya’da 2017 yılının son aylarında peçe yasağı yürürlüğe girdi. Bundan kısa bir süre sonra da kreş ve ilkokullarda başörtüsü yasağı gündeme geldi. Bir analiz.
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Institutionalizing Islam in Contemporary Austria
At the beginning of October 2014, a social democratic–conservative coalition government in Austria presented a draft for a new Islam Act. The unanimous voice of Muslims and the government declared that the existing Islam Act, which dated back to 1912, was now outdated. The government thus aimed to amend the existing act based on the […]
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Austria crackdown government to shutdown mosques
Watch latest interview on Al-Jazeera English here:
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