Far-right US leaders' religious extremism boosts Islamophobia

Far-right US leaders' religious extremism boosts Islamophobia

Since the escalation of Israel’s genocide in Gaza in 2023, the US far right has been exploiting the chance to spread Islamophobia even further. And a new report suggests that prominent US figures have been increasingly using the rhetoric of Christian extremism to do so, particularly around the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran. ‘Overtly religious’ framing and genocidal dehumanisation The Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) has reported th…