After the US-Israel attacks that began on February 28, an increase in anti-Muslim (Islamophobic) content has been observed on the internet.
“Elchi” reports that a report published by the US-based Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) analyzed posts made on the US-based X social media company between January 1 and March 5.
Accordingly, from February 28, when the attacks began, until March 5, a total of 25,348 anti-Muslim posts containing “horrific, violent, or exclusionary language” were recorded on the platform.
When reposts were included in these figures, the number of records reached 279,417.
The report states that in many posts, Muslims were described with derogatory terms, and among the posts were calls for the deportation of Muslims, their sending to concentration camps, or collective punishment. Researchers emphasized that political discussions related to the attacks contributed to this increase. The report notes that some high-ranking US administration officials and members of Congress interpreted the conflicts from a religious perspective. US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, in an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson, defended the killing of children in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the idea of a “Greater Israel based on the Torah.”
Huckabee claimed that Israel has a “Torah-based right” to the region extending from the Nile River to the Euphrates River and added: “It would be good if they took it all.” Foreign Minister Marco Rubio also described the Iranian regime as “religious fanatics” with ambitions to possess nuclear weapons in a press statement.
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