Counter-jihad

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Counter-jihad (also known as the counter-jihad movement) is an anti-Muslim political movement loosely consisting of authors, bloggers, think tanks, demonstrators, and other activists across the Western world. Proponents are linked by a view of Islam as an actively destructive ideology rather than a religion, arguing that it constitutes an existential threat to Western civilization. Consequently, counter-jihadists consider all Muslims as a potential threat, especially when they are already living within Western boundaries. Western Muslims accordingly are portrayed as a "fifth column", collectively seeking to destabilize Western nations' identity and values for the benefit of an international Islamic movement intent on the establishment of a caliphate in Western countries. The counter-jihad movement has been described as anti-Islamic, Islamophobic, and inciting of hatred against Muslims. Influential figures in the movement include the bloggers Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer in the US, and...

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