Sverigedemokraterna och Islamofobi : en analys av islamofobiska inslag i Sverigedemokraternas politiska uttalanden och av valfilmen från 2010

Sammanfattning: This essay is based on the concept of Islamophobia and its significance. Islamophobia is a modern and a relatively new term that is defined in the hatred and prejudice against Islam and Muslims. In this essay it is possible to follow the arguments that can be seen as a sign that Muslims and those considered being Muslims face discrimination in the Swedish society. The fact that Muslims have a low ranking in the Swedish power hierarchy creates an unequal society. A central concept in this essay is the “we and them”- mentality as a social mind-set, where “them” is a collectivization of Muslims to one ethnical group considered to have Islamic undemocratic values that constitute a danger towards Sweden but also towards the western welfare system. This threat is sometimes expressed by the conspiracy theory “Eurabia”. The essay focus on political statements from the Swedish political party: the Sweden Democrats. The analysis, which is a mixture of content and argumentation analysis, will be centered on the question if one can find Islamophobic elements in these political statements and in the Sweden Democrats election movie from 2010.