We Can't Combat Extremism Without Also Combating Misogyny

[Nevilledog]

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https://rantt.com/we-cant-combat-extremism-without-also-combating-misogyny


As all eyes have shifted – at least in Western security communities – towards the growing threat of radical right extremism and terrorism. It is becoming increasingly apparent how the different defining lines of community in this context and the highly gendered nature of their members’ identities and ideologies challenge current conceptions of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) programming.

The concept of P/CVE was originally brought in as a ‘soft’ pillar of counter-terrorism (CT) frameworks around 15 years ago in the context of the ongoing ‘Global War on Terror.’ The impact of this context on CT frameworks in the West over the last two decades has left them almost entirely focused on the threat of Islamist extremism and foreign terrorist organizations.

This means that the concept of P/CVE has also largely been designed around countering Islamist extremism, often leading to critique of it as a type of programming that negatively stereotypes and profiles minority ethnic and religious communities in the Western context. However, now, as the threat landscape is shifting, security forces’ concerns are turning towards the largely domestic-based threat of radical right ideologies, which often find their home within the majority demographic population. This presents challenges for how P/CVE programming can be re-imagined and re-designed to identify and reach at-risk populations that are not as easily identified as ‘suspect communities’.

Radical right extremism is an umbrella term (alongside right-wing, far-right, etc.), often used to lump together a jumble of different ideologies. For the policy community, this encourages a lack of attention to the different types of communities that might be formed and individuals that might be drawn in by one or more of these expressions of extremism – which range from anti-government to ultra-nationalism to white and/or male supremacy and beyond.

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[hlthe2b]

1. Damn right.

[love_katz]

2. The linked article is worth reading.

I liked how the article points out that extremist ideas about gender roles are not different than the ideology of the Taliban. Toxic stuff, which many far right radicals are pushing.