In the media
August 20, 2026
Recently, Het Parool spoke to ICCT researcher Julian Lanchès about the threat landscape facing the LGBTQ+ community ahead of WorldPride Amsterdam, in the wake of the Berlin attack. Lanchès explained that within IS discourse, the LGBTQ+ community is portrayed as evidence of the West's alleged moral decline, but urged people not to be deterred from attending, noting that the vast majority of terror plots are foiled by authorities. He also distinguished between threat profiles, observing that low-level attacks and intimidation against the LGBTQ+ community in Germany and the Netherlands are almost always carried out by far-right actors, while attacks involving explosives or firearms tend to originate from radical Islamist circles - and pointed out that far-right and Islamist propaganda targeting queer people is sometimes strikingly interchangeable.
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