For many Muslims, the far right isn’t the main problem
THERE IS AN optimistic way of reading the international reaction to the massacre at a New Zealand mosque on March 15th which goes something like this. Appalled by the bloodbath, decent people all over the Western world came together to support their Muslim compatriots, and vowed to step up the fight against ultra-rightist and white-supremacist terror, awhich had been underestimated.
Western Muslim commentators insisted that the rampage in New Zealand simply marked the far end of a spectrum of anti-Islamic feeling which they experience every day. A group called the “Collective against Islamophobia in France” happened to publish itson the day of the Antipodean massacre. It said that from 2017 to 2018 the number of hostile incidents suffered by French Muslims had jumped by more than half to 676. In 70% of cases the victims were female.
In response to all this, Muslim representatives frequently stress that the problem of Islamophobia is by no means confined to a far-rightist fringe.
The British government’s Prevent programme, designed to nip in the bud any individuals tempted by extremism, has always been presented as an even-handed initiative to curb radical tendencies of all kinds, whether Islamist or white-supremacist. But among Muslim activists like Ms Yaqoob, the programme has been excoriated both as anti-Muslim in its emphasis and fundamentally flawed in other ways, on grounds that it gives teachers and university lecturers, among others, a police-like role.
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