Many scholars have examined alt-right rhetoric surrounding other so-called types of jihad: violent jihad, civilizational jihad, stealth jihad, political jihad, cultural jihad, and others. However, white nationalist fears of “baby jihad,” or jihad via demography, have been under-analyzed. As such, I hope to contribute to the scholarly analysis of an emerging discourse in Islamophobia. Analyzing fears of baby jihad lends a new understanding to rising populism and anti-refugee sentiment throughout North America and Europe.

DEFINE: Introduces the term 'baby jihad' as a white nationalist trope denoting demographic change feared to advance Islam via birth rates. SEED: Could become an essay on how demographic anxieties shape populist anti-refugee sentiment across the West. Builds on: "White nationalists weaponize demographic fears about Muslim fertility"

Margaret Hodson, Baby Jihad, loc. 13