A modern dance macabre: inter- and intragroup misunderstandings in a context of dual radicalization

The project aims to understand the emergence of radical belief systems among native majority (radical right) and Muslim minority members (radical Islamism). To this end, we develop a model of dual radicalization that conceptualizes radical belief systems of majority and Muslim minority group members as mirror-images and emphasizes that both radical belief systems are crucially intertwined. This project involves the collection of new survey data among ethnic minority members in Belgium (BEMES) that will be analyzed in combination with the Belgian National Election Survey (BNES 2019) collected among the majority population.