Since the refugee crisis in 2015, Europe has been struggling with rising xenophobia, especially against migrants with a Muslim background. The rise of radical right-wing parties like the AfD in Germany and the Front National in France are signs that Europe is facing a political crossroads. Europe is being tested on what extent it puts its cherished values of human rights, tolerance and plurality into practice. The increasing xenophobia is interrelated with rising Islamophobia and hatred against Muslims in Europe. The European Islamophobia Report 2021 addresses anti-Muslim incidents in Europe, as in previous years, to draw attention to this worrying problem. Enes Bayraklı (Turkish German University), Amani Hassani (Brunel University) and Aristotle Kallis (Keele University) will discuss the rise of anti-Muslim racism with regard to the report in a panel on November 18 in London. This panel is organized by CAGE UK, EIR and Leopold Weiss Institute.

About European Islamophobia Report:

European Islamophobia Report is an annual report published since 2015, covering almost all European countries. The EIR continues to provide policymakers, scholars, community leaders, and ordinary readers a unique collection of European-wide analyses of anti-Muslim racism in Europe. EIR project is done with the support of the International Islamophobia Studies and Research Association (IISRA) based in Berkeley, California alongside the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, Rutgers University’s Center for Security, Race and Rights, the Berkeley-based International Islamophobia Studies Center, the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project (IRDP) at the Center for Race and Gender (CRG) at the University of California, Berkeley, the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies program at San Francisco State University, the Vienna-based Leopold Weiss Institute plus the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR) at Uppsala University (Sweden).