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Methodology

The rules this archive runs on. They are public because they are the product: an archive is only worth citing if you can see how it was built.

The single rule

Every claim carries a primary source. Six classes qualify:

A

Government documents

Reviews, white papers, commission findings laid before parliaments.

B

Security-service reports

Annual reports and threat assessments of European domestic services.

C

Commissions of inquiry

Formally constituted inquiries and their published records.

D

Court judgments

National and EU court rulings, cited from official databases.

E

The movements' own publications

Charters, platforms and statements - quoted, dated, linked.

F

Official recordings

Statements, hearings and sittings, and an institution's own videos about its findings or operations, published by the institution itself or by a broadcaster on its own channel. The archive reports what the publisher says the recording is; it does not characterise footage.

Interpretation is never presented as fact: wherever this archive goes beyond what a document says, the passage is visibly marked analysis. Sources are quoted with their location and the date the link was opened and verified. Verbatim quotes and summaries each carry a label. Typographic marks are set as plain keyboard characters, inside quotations too; the words are not changed.

The "2026 so far" list on the home page is kept apart from the register. It lists what national authorities announced themselves in 2026, each item linked to the official page and quoted from it. It is a floor, not a count: it covers only the official pages that could be opened, and it is replaced by Europol's figures when they appear. The selection rule is printed under the list, and every announcement found that the rule leaves out is counted there by what the authority names. Suspects are not named.

What this archive is not

The subject is an ideology and its organisations - never a religious population. Nothing here attacks Muslims as a religious group or generalises from extremists to a community. Many of the people endangered by the movements this archive documents are themselves of Muslim background - dissidents, reformers, and those who left.

No deception. No fake personas, no astroturfing, no invented sources or numbers.

No demographic-replacement thesis. This site does not rest on it and rejects it. The measured record (see the Pew entry below): Muslims were 4.9% of Europe's population in 2016; even the highest 2050 migration scenario projects 14%. A claim refutable with one citation would take the true parts down with it.

Crime statistics by origin are a separate evidentiary track and are not chained to doctrine claims on this site.

Methodology anchors

Europe's Growing Muslim Populationresearch-institute2017Europe-wideour summary
Pew Research Center, 29 November 2017
Muslims were 4.9% of Europe's population in 2016; projected for 2050: 7.4% with zero migration, 11.2% under medium migration, 14% under high migration.Summarised by this archive, not quoted. Open the source to read its own words.
report projections | verified 2026-08-05
Refutation anchor: this site does not rest on, and rejects, the demographic-replacement thesis.
NCTV and AIVD (Netherlands), September 2026 - copy hosted by the Tweede Kamer
"Door hun gedachtegoed te normaliseren willen rechts-extremisten de democratische rechtsorde afbreken en uiteindelijk een witte etnostaat stichten."
English - our translation, unproofreadBy normalising their ideas, right-wing extremists want to break down the democratic legal order and ultimately found a white ethnostate.
"Essentie", PDF p. 3 | verified 2026-10-04
Limits stated by the source itself: the normalisation strategy is not worked out in detail or tightly coordinated, and the groups are small. The analysis does not address Islamism; it is published here because two Dutch services apply a 'façade politics / entryism' lens to a different milieu, which the archive's own entryism framing must not be read as unique to.

A model that already works

Austria's Documentation Centre Political Islam - a fund of the Republic of Austria - shows that documenting this subject at state level is legitimate practice. This archive follows that model as an independent European effort.

Compliance and accountability

The same principle governs the legal layer: the rules are published so that they can be checked. The legal notice states what is known about the publisher and, plainly, where the project's anonymity does not meet what German, Austrian and French law require. The privacy notice describes what this site does with data: no cookies, no accounts, no profile, one aggregate count of page views and countries, and one outside request: video thumbnails load from YouTube's image server. The terms of use set out how this archive quotes others, and what you may quote from it in turn.

The fourth is accuracy and corrections: the standard this archive is edited by. A claim here that its primary source does not support is wrong and gets changed; corrections are dated and recorded, and a withdrawn claim stays visible as withdrawn. This site accepts no correspondence; in place of a complaints channel, every claim is attached to a document you can open and check yourself.