Politically active gays, Jewish academics, French celebrities, uneasy alliances of feminists and conservatives, politicians hungry for power—and the only thing they have in common is a belief Islam will overrun the West. The movement was born with 9/11. As coalition troops invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, journalists like Oriana Fallaci and Melanie Phillips warned that Muslims in the West were a potential enemy within. An internet underground spread the message. Soon sites like Jihadwatch and Little Green Footballs were warning the world that Islam posed a threat to democracy. In 2007 the Counter-Jihad Conference in Brussels brought activists together. The English Defence League was born, and similar anti-Islamic movements blossomed across Europe. The Arab Spring, then a series of Islamic terrorist attacks and the Muslim migrant crisis turned up the heat. By this time prominent U.S. counter-jihad bloggers had jobs writing for Breitbart. Some people at Breitbart had the ear of a New York billionaire considering a run in the 2016 Presidential election. Donald J. Trump would get elected on a platform of populist nationalism. One of his first acts was a travel ban on citizens of six Muslim countries. Far-right populist movements across Europe took note. Christopher Othen weaves together current events and history into a driving narrative.