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29 Apr 2024 | Organizations
2024 Civil Rights Report: 8,000+ Anti-Muslim Bias Complaints
In April 2024, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest American Muslim civil rights organization, published their annual civil rights report highlighting anti-Muslim bias complaints reported to them over the calendar year. Their 2024 annual civil rights report showed that CAIR received 8,061 total complaints nationwide during the 2023 calendar year, which marks the highest number of complaints that the civil rights group has ever recorded in their entire 30-year history. read the complete article
20 Dec 2023 | Policy/Law
American Muslim Group Files Lawsuit to End FBI Watchlists
The post-9/11 racial profiling adage of “Flying While Muslim” has impacted millions of Muslims, Arabs and South Asians all over the world for the last two decades. To challenge the constitutionality of these secret government… read the complete article
20 Nov 2023 | Terms/Tropes
Report: Anti-Palestinian Racism & Islamophobia in Gaza War Coverage
In November 2023, the Center for Security, Race and Rights at Rutgers University published a comprehensive report called “Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes in the Palestine-Israel Discourse,” which examines how anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia have been… read the complete article
03 Nov 2023 | Terms/Tropes
Report: Islamophobia Lower Among US Latinos
To understand how Latino people across America view Islam and Muslims, the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) published an October 2023 report, which found that Latinos generally have lower levels of Islamophobia than other racial and ethnic groups in America today. read the complete article
01 Aug 2023 | Law Enforcement
Protected: Factsheet: War on Terror
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28 Jul 2023 | Law Enforcement
UN Finally Visits Guantanamo Bay Prison After 20 Years
The extrajudicial prison at Guantanamo Bay has been a global stain on America and our legal concept of “due process” for over 20 years because almost 800 Muslim men and boys disappeared there (many of them without ever being charged with a crime). read the complete article
06 Jul 2023 | Policy/Law
Report on #BankingWhileMuslim Analyzes Financial Islamophobia
A March 2023 study from the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) analyzed survey data on banking challenges from financial institutions which millions of American Muslims face today. The study highlighted the impact these restrictions have on the ability for millions of American Muslims to run civic/charitable organizations, open personal bank accounts, or even buy movie tickets via PayPal and Venmo. read the complete article
15 Jun 2023 | Policy/Law
Middle East Autocrats, Islamophobia, and “Reverse Orientalism”
The legacies of entrenched orientalist frameworks and dispositions continue to influence scholarship and discussions of the Middle East and Muslims. In his iconic work on the subject, Orientalism, Edward Said defined this notion as “a… read the complete article
21 Dec 2022 | Policy/Law
2022 Islamophobia in Review: United States
2022 in the United States marked the twentieth anniversary of the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, which rights organizations and academics have described as an “enduring symbol of Islamophobia.” The detention center was opened in… read the complete article
04 Oct 2022 | Individuals
Report: Muslims Represent Only 1% of Hollywood TV Roles
Even though the world’s 1.9 billion Muslims currently represent nearly one-fourth (24%) of the world’s nearly 8 billion person population today, a recent September 2022 report from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative… read the complete article