The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) released a new report today, Violence
Against Perceived Blasphemers In The West: From Khamenei's Fatwa To The
Present, authored by CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy. The report isolates and
examines a strand of Islamist violence motivated by perceived acts of
blasphemy, its evolution, and the- paradoxical responses to both perceived
insults and violent responses as well as targets of attacks including Salman
Rushdie, Theo Van Gogh, Samuel Paty, and others. It provides analysis of an
emerging trend in which perceived Islamophobic politicians, commentators, and
even outspoken Muslim critics of Islamism are targeted.





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New CEP Report: Violence Against Perceived Blasphemers In The West – From
Khamenei’s Fatwa To The Present



(New York, N.Y.) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) released a new report
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today,Violence Against Perceived Blasphemers In The West: From Khamenei's
Fatwa To The Present, authored by CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy
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examines a strand of Islamist violence motivated by perceived acts of
blasphemy, its evolution, and the- paradoxical responses to both perceived
insults and violent responses as well as targets of attacks includingSalman
Rushdie
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, Theo Van Gogh, Samuel Paty, and others. It provides analysis of an emerging
trend in which perceived Islamophobic politicians, commentators, and even
outspoken Muslim critics of Islamism are targeted.



The report also presents a database of threats, plots, and acts of violence
and terrorism against individuals and institutions accused of blasphemy against
Islam in Western Europe, Turkey, North America, Japan, and Australia, beginning
with the 1989 fire bombings of a newspaper and bookshop that respectively
defended and stocked Rushdie’s novel,The Satanic Verses. The targets for
violence, the report notes, vary greatly, as do their motivations for their
perceived acts of insulting Islam or the Prophet Muhammad.



ISIS, as well as its precursors al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and Islamic State in
Iraq (IQI), has put an extreme emphasis on targeting alleged blasphemers,
including offering a $100,000 bounty for the assassination of Swedish artist
Lars Vilks, known for his depiction of Muhammad.



The report warns that a notable decline in artistic and academic exploration
of subject matter that could be perceived as blasphemous makes transgressing
the norms enforced by blasphemy assassins more likely, as the bar for
transgression is lowered further and further with each new controversy or
episode of violence.



To read the full report, Violence Against Perceived Blasphemers In The West:
From Khamenei's Fatwa To The Present, please click here
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