Counter-jihad: Difference between revisions

</ref> The 2012 conference in Denmark was claimed by its organisers, the EDL, to mark the starting point of a pan-European movement.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://cphpost.dk/news/national/islam-debate-takes-centre-stage-aarhus|title=Islam debate takes centre stage in Aarhus|publisher=The Copenhagen Post|date=4 April 2012|access-date=27 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419113029/http://cphpost.dk/news/national/islam-debate-takes-centre-stage-aarhus|archive-date=19 April 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> There have been no official CJM conferences since 2013, pointing to a decline in the original movement.<ref name=UPE/> However, a high-point in the European street movement came in January 2015 when 25,000 people attended a [[Pegida]] rally in the German city of Dresden.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/files/192414854/Aked_Jones_Miller_Counterjihad_report_2019.pdf|last1=Aked|first1=H.|last2=Jones|first2=M.|last3=Miller|first3=D.|year=2019|title=Islamophobia in Europe: How governments are enabling the far-right 'counter-jihad' movement|journal=Spinwatch Public Interest Investigations|publisher=University of Bristol|page=34}}</ref> In June 2018, 10,000 protesters attended a "[[Tommy Robinson (activist)|Free Tommy]]" rally in London.<ref name="perwee"/> It has been argued by Christopher Othen in his book ''Soldiers of a Different God: How the Counter-Jihad Movement Created Mayhem, Murder and the Trump Presidency'' that, after a fallout following the 2011 Norway attacks, the movement was reinvigorated by events such as the [[Arab Spring]], a series of Islamist terrorist attacks, and the [[European migrant crisis]], and to have influenced the success of [[Donald Trump]] in the [[2016 United States presidential election]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bq-IDwAAQBAJ&q=How+the+Counter-Jihad+Movement+Created+Mayhem,+Murder+and+the+Trump+Presidency|title=Soldiers of a Different God: How the Counter-Jihad Movement Created Mayhem, Murder and the Trump Presidency|date=15 August 2018|work=Amberley Publishing|isbn=9781445678009 |last1=Othen |first1=Christopher |publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited }}</ref> The counter-jihad movement has also been seen to have had numerous links with the [[Trump administration]], and to have influenced [[Trumpism|Trump's ideology]].<ref name="perwee">{{cite journal|title=Donald Trump, the anti-Muslim far right and the new conservative revolution|first=Ed|last=Perwee|year=2020|journal=Ethnic and Racial Studies|volume=43:16|issue=16 |pages=211–230|doi=10.1080/01419870.2020.1749688|s2cid=218843237 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/13/14559822/trump-islam-muslims-islamophobia-sharia|title=Trump's counter-jihad|date=February 13, 2017|work=Vox|last=Beauchamp|first=Zack}}</ref>