Terrorist acts enhance prejudice and hate crimes in the direction of Muslims
Anti-Muslim prejudice and hate crimes enhance in Europe and the USA as a consequence of Islamist terrorist assaults, a mannequin new research inside the journal Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations reveals. however extreme-profile hate crimes in the direction of Muslims have paradoxical outcomes.
A latest research by Klas Borell, Professor of Sociology and Social Work at Jönköping college, reveals that anti-Muslim prejudice is truly event pushed; terrorist assaults will set off anti-Muslim public opinion to shortly flare up after which, in calmer occasions, subside.
"The terrorists' indiscriminate violence creates insecurity and concern, and it is in such an emotional local climate that people can equate Islamist terrorists with extraordinary Muslims", says Klas Borell.
His evaluation reveals that anti-Muslim sentiments affect the quantity of hate crimes directed in the direction of Muslims and Muslim communities, nonetheless circuitously.
"Terrorist assaults and anti-Muslim sentiments give room for Islamophobic teams and networks to manoeuvre", says Klas Borell.
The worldwide evaluation overview executed by Professor Borell reveals that extreme-profile hate crimes are in themselves dramatic occasions with sudden outcomes.
"When hate crimes are highlighted inside the media, they typically set off a sturdy counter response. Crimes of this nature are difficult the sense of justice in lots of people and lead to solidarity actions. A statistically consultant research from Sweden reveals these paradoxical outcomes. it is precisely inside the areas in Sweden the place Muslim communities have suffered in all likelihood the most hate crimes, the leaders of the communities contemplate the assist of Muslims' rights to observe their religion to be the best. Hate crimes, in fully different phrases, work as catalysts for solidarity actions of diversified varieties and will not give the outcomes that the perpetrators supposed", says Klas Borell.
Klas Borell's worldwide evaluation evaluation "When is the Time to Hate? A evaluation evaluation on the influence of Dramatic occasions on Islamophobia and Islamophobic Hate Crimes in Europe" is now printed inside the worldwide journal Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 26(4): 409-421
