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Abstract
Background: To contribute to research on the transnational far right, Islamophobia, and social media platforms, this article interrogates the far right’s practice of using Twitter to produce and circulate a #removekebab hashtag.
Analysis: The accounts behind the words and images of 100 #removekebab tweets are analyzed to show how they communicate the transnational far right’s hateful Islamophobic discourse.
Conclusion and implications: The far right’s #removekebab tweets dehumanize Muslims, tacitly call for genocide against Muslims, and rationalize this violence by stereotyping Muslims as a collective threat to the West.
Contexte : Afin de contribuer à la recherche sur l’extrême droite transnationale, l’islamophobie et les plateformes de médias sociaux, l’auteur interroge la pratique de l’extrême droite consistant à utiliser Twitter pour produire et faire circuler le hashtag removekebab.
Analyse : L’auteur analyse les comptes, les mots et les images de 100 tweets #removekebab et montre comment ils communiquent le discours islamophobe haineux de l’extrême droite transnationale.
Conclusion et implications : L’auteur constate que les tweets #removekebab de l’extrême droite déshumanisent les musulmans, appellent tacitement au génocide des musulmans et rationalisent cette violence en stéréotypant les musulmans comme une menace collective pour l’Occident.
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