A photo of the entrance to the Al-Noor Islamic Centre in Bærum, Norway, taken shortly after the terror atttack on the centre by convicted right-wing terrorist Philip Manshaus on August 10th, 2019. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Kjetil Ree
In the article, published in Journal of Political Ideologies,
authors Fangen and Nilsen use social movement theory to understand interviews conducted with
leaders of two Norwegian anti-Islamist groups and one neo-Nazi group, specifically
to analyse their mobilizing ideas and proposed solutions to the
problems they imagine, as well as whether they believe they have support
in the general population. Furthermore, the article also analyses how the actors’ views
relate to broader discourses in society. As a background to their analysis, the authors also refer to the larger landscape of far-right groups in Norway
during past decades, as well as their equivalents in other European
countries.
The article is open access and available here.