The European "Counter-Jihad" Movement
A research team based at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence has released a report on the English Defence League (EDL) and its European allies . The report provides a rare insight on the EDL and its strategy of linking up with other European islamophobic movements which the authors of the report refer to collectively as the European Counter-Jihad Movement. According to the report In the last several months this loose international alliance has begun to exhibit a more developed operational structure. Based on fieldwork in Europe and interviews with the leading figures of the European Counter-Jihad Movement, the report points out that the latter, u nlike most other far-right organisations, remains a one-issue movement, and has yet to show an interest in expanding its scope to cover other popular concerns. The authors suggest that the European Counter-Jihad Movement espouses what they call "an assertive cultural national