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The educational component

The educational component

Prof. Günther Jikeli

Islamism does not manifest itself only in violent acts. From its early days, the ideals of the movement included an important educational component.

How is education used today by Islamists as a means to spread their distorted interpretation of historical Muslim-Jewish relations as well as their antisemitic ideology?

References

  • Jikeli, Günther, “Anti-Semitism within the Extreme Right and Islamists’ Circles,” in Olaf Glöckner and Haim Fireberg, eds., Being Jewish in 21st-Century Germany (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2015), pp. 188 – 207.

  • Jikeli, Günther, European Muslim Antisemitism: Why Young Urban Males Say They Don’t Like Jews (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015).

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