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Paper short abstract:

The paper will focus on outlining the methods and techniques of presenting anti-Islamic attitudes used by the Center for the Study of Political Islam International, founded in the Czech Republic, and also used by its American founder Bill Warner in his books and videos.

Paper long abstract:

While in the first decade of the third millennium, it was enough for Western anti-Muslim activists to point to terrorist attacks by Islamist extremists, the wearing of hijabs or burqas and the practice of female circumcision "over there somewhere in Africa", in the last ten years, to respond to criticism from academics in Islamic studies etc., some anti-Muslim writers have begun to employ more sophisticated strategies in support of their argument that Islam poses a threat to Western societies. In his books, Bill Warner, the American founder of the Czech-based Center for the Study of Political Islam International (CSPII), uses statistical methods applied to the study of Islamic source texts to make a scholarly and scientific case that Islam is a religion of violence, intolerance, lies, conspiracies, etc. Members of his organization in the Czech Republic and other countries (mostly from the CCE region) hold public lectures where, using the results of Warner's method, they present to the audience a simple explanation of the true nature of "political Islam", using graphs and statistics. This paper will focus on presenting the methods and techniques of the CSPII organization that its founders and members use to support their arguments regarding their construct of "political Islam".