Different Types of Manifestations of Anti-Muslim Hatred and Securitization of Muslims in Europe

We will provide an answer to the question of whether there is something that is potentially common to all actors who promote anti-Muslim hatred, and, we will look at the process of how Muslims, through various forms of reductionism and essentialization, are being transformed into a security threat to the societies and systems in which they live.

Ivan Ejub Kostić is an expert in islamic studies; he graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the Department of Oriental Studies, Arabic Language, and Literature and obtained a master’s degree in the same department. He is one of the founders of the Balkan Centre for the Middle East and became its executive director in 2013. Ivan is co-author or sole author of several books on Islam. Also, he is a member of the steering committee of the European Muslim Network based in Brussels, a member of the editorial board of the journal of religious sciences Kom, and the editor-in-chief of the online platform for contemporary Islamic thought and culture Algoritam. He is a regular contributor to the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, as well as to the ‘Islamophobia in Europe’ project sponsored by the SETA Foundation.

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