Anti-Muslim racism online
February 19, 2021 marked the anniversary of the Hanau attack. A core element of the attacker's worldview was anti-Muslim racism, which is sadly an everyday occurrence online: from individual comments or memes disparaging Muslim people to targeted hate campaigns by right-wing extremists calling for violence or even murder of Muslims.
Especially in the context of social, national or global events, anti-Muslim racism repeatedly reaches new proportions online. Be it the propagandistic instrumentalization of Islamist terrorist attacks or the conspiracy narrative of the "great exchange", according to which Muslims seek to displace the "German" population: Fomenting hatred of Muslim people is a basic constant of misanthropic online propaganda, which not least motivates deadly, right-wing terrorist acts of violence - worldwide. This makes the need to counter anti-Muslim racism with sustainable prevention strategies all the more urgent.
How anti-Muslim racism manifests itself online, which mechanisms and strategies come into play here, and which prevention approaches exist, is illuminated by the PraxisInfo "Anti-Muslim racism online. Right-wing extremist hate propaganda requires sustainable prevention approaches".
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