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.{{sfn|Aked|Jones|Miller|2019|p=34}} In June 2018, 10,000 protesters attended a "[[Tommy Robinson (activist)|Free Tommy]]" rally in London.{{sfn|Pertwee|2020|p=211}} 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]].{{sfn|Othen|2018}} 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]].{{sfn|Aked|Jones|Miller|2019|p=16}}{{sfn|Pertwee|2020|pp=211, 222}}<ref name="vox201702"/> Aspects of the movement has thus been seen to have entered mainstream right-wing politics in the United States, as well as in European countries.{{sfn|Aked|Jones|Miller|2019|p=6}}{{sfn|Meleagrou-Hitchens|Brun|2013|p=2}}<ref name="theguardian">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/05/far-right-muslim-cultural-civil-war|title=Anti-Muslim prejudice ‘is moving to the mainstream’|work=The Guardian|date=5 December 2015|first=Mark|last=Townsend}}</ref>