This presentation provides an overview of some of the challenges concerning understanding the impact of Islamophobia on the radicalisation of both Islamist and far-right groups and how political polarisation provides fertile territory for such manifestations of reciprocal extremism to take hold.
Tahir Abbas BSc (Econ) MSocSc PhD FRSA is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Strategic and Global Affairs at Leiden University in The Hague. His research interests include ethnicity, social conflict, Islamophobia, and radicalisation.His recent books are Countering Violent Extremism (Bloomsbury, 2021), Islamophobia and Radicalisation (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2019)
