Replication Data for: Discrimination against Muslims, the role of networks and terrorist attacks in Western Europe: The cases of United Kingdom, France and Italy (doi:10.7910/DVN/AVDBX0)

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Replication Data for: Discrimination against Muslims, the role of networks and terrorist attacks in Western Europe: The cases of United Kingdom, France and Italy

doi:10.7910/DVN/AVDBX0

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2021-06-15

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Dell'isola, Davide, 2021, "Replication Data for: Discrimination against Muslims, the role of networks and terrorist attacks in Western Europe: The cases of United Kingdom, France and Italy", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AVDBX0, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Replication Data for: Discrimination against Muslims, the role of networks and terrorist attacks in Western Europe: The cases of United Kingdom, France and Italy

doi:10.7910/DVN/AVDBX0

Dell'isola, Davide (University of Central Florida)

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Dell'Isola, Davide

Dell'isola, Davide

2021-05-17

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AVDBX0

Social Sciences, Fundamentalism, Radicalism, Islam, Religion, Terrorism

In the last few years, a wave of Islamist-related terrorist attacks took place in Western Europe, mainly in France and Belgium but with relevant episodes also in the United Kingdom whereas so far Italy did not suffer any attack of this kind. Each of these countries hosts a large number of Muslim immigrants and communities, participated in military missions in the Middle East, and has been repeatedly threatened by ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) or other Islamist-related radical groups. What then explains the difference in the number and intensity of Islamist-related terrorist attacks in Western European countries? Using qualitative cross-case comparison case studies and relying on the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) and the Association of Religion Data Archive (ARDA), I argue that countries directly discriminating toward Islamic communities are more likely to suffer these kinds of attacks because this discrimination causes grievances against the host state within the discriminated minority. This effect is higher in the presence of religious and cultural networks where these grievances can be brought at the center of the public debate and be connected together because of the presence of large audiences, resulting in the possible development of more radicalized positions of small portions of the discriminated community. This is particularly true for highly secular states like France, where the interpretation of secularism makes accommodation for religious minorities extremely challenging, also resulting in laws that regulate religious behavior of minorities, therefore increasing outrage and frustration of the minority group.

The paper is based on a qualitative case-study comparison approach. This replication data refers to the original elements presented in table 1 and table 2 in the paper (for table 2 the sources for most of the variables are indicated in the paper as they are taken from the ARDA and the Allievi (2014) datasets. This data identifies the nationality of the terrorists and the attacks in the GTD that I use as a base for the discussion in the paper

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Dell’Isola D (2021). Discrimination against Muslims, the role of networks and terrorist attacks in Western Europe: the cases of United Kingdom, France, and Italy. Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2021.22

10.1017/ipo.2021.22

Dell’Isola D (2021). Discrimination against Muslims, the role of networks and terrorist attacks in Western Europe: the cases of United Kingdom, France, and Italy. Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2021.22

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