Globalization and its discontents

This chapter shows that Muslim transformations, and policies adopted by neoliberal and neoconservative elites, are having varying impacts on Western society and on the growing populist antagonism toward both liberalism and globalization. We examine protest movements that pose a challenge to liberalism and liberal thoughts, focusing particularly on far-right and neoconservative political discourse, as we also shed light on the resurging national populism. We explore in this chapter the role played by right-wing political movements and the advocates of neoliberalism to mobilize Western societies against their fellow Muslims and against Islam in general and show why such efforts are ill-conceived and wrong-headed.