Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
In recent decades, states have responded to racism by focusing on individualised issues around citizenship, identity and belonging, to the detriment of collective experience and solidarity. This approach has flattened out or eroded entirely the question of what it is to be Muslim in Europe today. Islamophobia across Europe is structural. It is driven by political leaders, public officials, law and policy makers and the media. Public policy, legislation, and media discourse normalise anti-Muslim racism in the public sphere and largely ignore the structural drivers that underpin systemic Islamophobia.
Despite a deeply concerning increase in racist undercurrents and Islamophobic rhetoric and attacks, coupled with an increase in support for the right and far-right across Europe, few attempts have been made to understand the origins of these attitudes and attacks, or their relationship to wider socio-political practices. In tackling Islamophobia, we must first understand it as a concrete action that is undertaken in the pursuit of certain political and social interests.
To discuss this further, TNI hosted a webinar on 25 November 2020 with the following speakers:
-United Kingdom: Narzanin Massoumi and David Miller, Spinwatch
-France: Yasser Louati, Comité Justice & Libertés Pour Tous
-The Netherlands: Nawal Mustafa, S.P.E.A.K. Muslim Women Feminist Collective
-France: Benedicte Kurzen, Noor
-Spain: Pedro Rojo, Al Fanar
-Italy: Prof. Francesco Alfonso Leccese, University of Calabria.
In recent decades, states have responded to racism by focusing on individualised issues around citizenship, identity and belonging, to the detriment of collective experience and solidarity. This approach has flattened out or eroded entirely the question of what it is to be Muslim in Europe today. Islamophobia across Europe is structural. It is driven by political leaders, public officials, law and policy makers and the media. Public policy, legislation, and media discourse normalise anti-Muslim racism in the public sphere and largely ignore the structural drivers that underpin systemic Islamophobia.
Despite a deeply concerning increase in racist undercurrents and Islamophobic rhetoric and attacks, coupled with an increase in support for the right and far-right across Europe, few attempts have been made to understand the origins of these attitudes and attacks, or their relationship to wider socio-political practices. In tackling Islamophobia, we must first understand it as a concrete action that is undertaken in the pursuit of certain political and social interests.
To discuss this further, TNI hosted a webinar on 25 November 2020 with the following speakers:
-United Kingdom: Narzanin Massoumi and David Miller, Spinwatch
-France: Yasser Louati, Comité Justice & Libertés Pour Tous
-The Netherlands: Nawal Mustafa, S.P.E.A.K. Muslim Women Feminist Collective
-France: Benedicte Kurzen, Noor
-Spain: Pedro Rojo, Al Fanar
-Italy: Prof. Francesco Alfonso Leccese, University of Calabria.
![Short documentary: Barcelonas water business scam/Lestafa del negoci de laigua [es & eng]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YXfm6J0jl44/mqdefault.jpg "Short documentary: Barcelonas water business scam/Lestafa del negoci de laigua [es & eng]
Presented at the Future is Public conference 2019: https://futureispublic.org/
We are living in a crucial moment. Cities are on the front lines of today’s most urgent challenges, including fighting climate change and rising inequality, as well as the need to support refugees and provide universal access to public services that are human rights including housing, drinking water and sanitation services, energy, health care and education. These global problems call for public solutions.
A growing network of progressive, green municipalities is developing strategies to tackle these and many other critical issues. Cities are well positioned to explore direct democracy, and advance innovative economic models that build community wealth and create decent jobs. At the same time, we need a national level of coordination and ambition to reverse market fundamentalism, which is the root cause of our collective economic and social crises. Profit-driven, market-based policies led to the privatisation of our public services and to the denigration of solidarity and public service.
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