Headscarfs and homosexuals – feminist ideals in xenophobic politics

Open Democracy has published an extract from a pamphlet by Johanne Mygind and Anders Rasmussen which explores the contradictions at the heart of the Islamophobic populism of the Danish People’s Party, whose packaging of their anti-Muslim politics as based on a concern for the rights of women and the LGBT community stands in sharp contrast to the party’s own record on these issues.