Religion & Politics

Bjoern Hoecke, AfD party leader and top candidate for Thuringia, gestures during an election campaign rally ahead of the upcoming Thuringia state elections in Gotha, Germany October 23, 2019. REUTERS/Michael Dalder - RC1B97443CB0

Religion & Politics

How “populist” is the AfD?

Jeffrey Gedmin

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Vice Mayor of Vienna Dominik Nepp, Head of Austria's Freedom Party Norbert Hofer and Former Interior Minister Herbert Kickl hold Austrian flags during the final election rally in Vienna, Austria, September 27, 2019. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner - RC19FDB02500

Religion & Politics

How the center-right co-opts the far-right in Austria

Farid Hafez, Reinhard Heinisch, and Eric Miklin

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Five-Star Movement activist and comedian Beppe Grillo gestures as he arrives for a rally in the Sicily town of Termini Imerese, Italy October 22, 2012. REUTERS/Massimo Barbanera/File Photo - D1AETJWGKRAB

Religion & Politics

How Italy’s “all-populist government” viewed Muslims

Manuela Caiani

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Members of the activist group Party Rebels, paste up posters alerting people to an organised protest against the face veil ban in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 23, 2018. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly SEARCH "DENMARK VEIL" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. THE IMAGES SHOULD ONLY BE USED TOGETHER WITH THE STORY - NO STAND-ALONE USES - RC18C98ABA00

Religion & Politics

Islam and the Danish-Scandinavian welfare state

Susi Meret

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Reports

People hold banners reading "Refugees and Muslims are welcome" during a memorial service held for those killed on Saturday by a 22-year-old gunman, in Copenhagen February 16, 2015. Danish police said on Monday they had charged two people with aiding the man suspected of shooting dead two people in attacks on a synagogue and an event promoting free speech in Copenhagen at the weekend. The shootings, which Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt called acts of terrorism, sent shockwaves through Denmark and have been compared to the January attacks in Paris by Islamist militants that killed 17. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (DENMARK - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS RELIGION CIVIL UNREST) - LR2EB2G1L133Y

Religion & Politics

Islam as a “floating signifier”: Right-wing populism and perceptions of Muslims in Denmark

Susi Meret and Andreas Beyer Gregersen

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) chairwoman Frauke Petry (R) and party member Armin Paul Hampel (background R) meet with Nurhan Soykan, first deputy chairwoman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany and Sadiqu Al-Mousllie (2nd L) member of the Syrian opposition in Germany, at a hotel in Berlin, Germany May 23, 2016. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt - LR1EC5N0S6B8U

Religion & Politics

Right-wing populism in Germany: Muslims and minorities after the 2015 refugee crisis

Jeffrey Gedmin

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Syrian migrants walk along a railway track after crossing the Hungarian-Serbian border into Hungary, near Roszke, August 26, 2015. Hungary's government has started to construct a 175-km-long (110-mile-long) fence on its border with Serbia in order to halt a massive flow of migrants who enter the EU via Hungary and head to western Europe. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh - GF10000182998

Religion & Politics

Anti-Muslim populism in Hungary: From the margins to the mainstream

Péter Krekó, Bulcsú Hunyadi, and Patrik Szicherle

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Muslims hold Friday prayers in front of the Colosseum in Rome, Italy October 21, 2016, to protest against the closure of unlicensed mosques. REUTERS/Tony Gentile - D1BEUIGTQKAA

Religion & Politics

Muslims in the West and the rise of the new populists: The case of Italy

Manuela Caiani

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders of the PVV party reacts as a dog barks at him as he campaigns in Valkenburg, Netherlands, March 11, 2017. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez - RC1F934580E0

Religion & Politics

“The biggest problem in the Netherlands”: Understanding the Party for Freedom’s politicization of Islam

Koen Damhuis

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Blog Posts

Two Muslim women take pictures after the first Friday prayers during the month of Ramadan at Diyanet Center of America in Lanham, Maryland, U.S., May 10, 2019. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky - RC15CA4BC8D0

Order from Chaos

For religious American Muslims, hostility from the right and disdain from the left

Shadi Hamid

Monday, August 5, 2019

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with a Muslim cleric as he visits the Zitouna mosque in the Medina (old town) of the Tunisian capital Tunis, Tunisia, February 1, 2018. REUTERS/Eric Feferberg/Pool - RC1DF0E93920

Order from Chaos

Islam, made in France? Debating the reform of Muslim organizations and foreign funding for religion

Rim-Sarah Alouane

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Indonesian President Joko Widodo and his running mate for the 2019 presidential election Islamic cleric Ma'ruf Amin wave after registering for the election at the General Election Commission in Jakarta, Indonesia August 10, 2018 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Akbar Nugroho Gumay/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. INDONESIA OUT. - RC16976DBB40

Order from Chaos

Is Islam an increasingly polarizing political cleavage in Indonesia?

Alexander R. Arifianto

Thursday, April 25, 2019

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Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy

Eliora Katz

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Indonesian Muslims attend Friday prayers at the Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta July 23, 2010. Indonesia's Muslims learned last week they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country's highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa. Muslims are supposed to face the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia during prayer and the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued an edict in March stipulating westward was the correct direction from the world's most populous Muslim country. It has now said the true direction is north-west. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA - Tags: RELIGION ODDLY IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E67N18IZ01

Podcast Episode

How Saudi Arabia and Iran use Islam in foreign policy

Shadi Hamid, Peter Mandaville, and Fred Dews

Friday, January 11, 2019

On September 16-18, 2017, the Brookings Institution, in conjunction with the State of Qatar, will convene the 13th annual U.S.-Islamic World Forum in New York, NY. The theme of this years Forum is Crisis and Cooperation.

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