Islamophobia in Cyberspace

Imran Awan is Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University, UK. He is the co-editor of Policing Cyber-Hate, Cyber-Threats and Cyber-Terrorism (Ashgate, 2012) and Extremism, Counter-terrorism and Policing (Ashgate, 2013).

• Introduction, (Imran Awan)1. Cyber-Islamophobia and internet hate crime, (Imran Awan) 2. Virtual Islamophobia: the eight faces of anti-Muslim trolls on Twitter, (Imran Awan)3. The normalisation of Islamophobia through social media: Facebook, (Andre Oboler)4. Online hate and political activist groups, (Brian Blakemore)5. The media impact of online Islamophobia: an analysis of the Woolwich murder, (Mohammed Rahman)6. The psychology of online Islamophobia, (Jane Prince)7. Legislation and international frameworks tackling online Islamophobia, (Ewan Kirk)8. Policing anti-Muslim hate crime on the internet, (Imran Awan)9. The experiences of victims of online Islamophobia, (F. Jeane Gerard and Kate C. Whitfield)10. Islamophobia, hate crime and the internet, (Imran Awan)Index

’The issue of hate on the internet has emerged as one of the greatest challenges facing those charged with reducing harmful hate cases in our societies, particularly since the proliferation of social media. Muslims in Europe have felt this online hostility as keenly as other communities and this is a serious text that will be valuable to any reader looking to better understand the nature of anti-Muslim hostility and how it is expressed online.' Paul Giannasi, Manager of the UK Government Hate Crime Programme