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Commentary on today’s most pressing issues in the U.S. and around the world.
13 Feb 2018
Europe’s Fearmonger: Czech President Milos Zeman′s re-election
This op-ed by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared in Qantara. The Czech Republic has once again elected Milos Zeman as president, a leader who applauds Donald Trump’s ban on Muslims entering the USA… read the complete article
15 Jan 2018
I am not your Muslim!
This op-ed by Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared on LeMuslimPost. Unfortunately and as it has been thoroughly documented, Europe has not solved its white supremacy problem and its tradition of othering minorities. Professor… read the complete article
09 Jan 2018
Normalizing the far right in Austria
This op-ed by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared in TRT World. In the past, far-right parties would have been ostracized, but now it’s a question of how to accommodate them. This poses dangers… read the complete article
03 Jan 2018
Austria’s new programme for government: En route to a restrictive policy on Islam?
This op-ed by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared in Qantara. The word “Islam” appears a total of 21 times in the Austrian coalition’s new programme for government, which is entitled “Zusammen. Für unser… read the complete article
03 Jan 2018
When the Fear of Muslims Leads Jews to Whitewash the Far Right
“In Austria today, the real anti-Semitic threat is from Muslims, not Nazis,” argues Martin Engelberg, one of Austria’s first Jewish post-war members of parliament, who ran for the Liste Sebastian Kurz, the new name for… read the complete article
19 Dec 2017
Why secularism secures Islam’s independence in Europe
This op-ed by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared in Daily Sabah. There is no proof of the link between the numerous terrorist attacks in Belgium over the last few years and a very… read the complete article
11 Dec 2017
Donald Trump Has Never Stopped Lying About Muslims
This op-ed by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Arsalan Iftikhar originally appeared in HuffPost. It’s been just over two years since then-candidate Donald Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the… read the complete article
30 Nov 2017
President Trump’s whole political career has been built on Islamophobia
This op-ed by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Arsalan Iftikhar originally appeared in The Washington Post. You know things are bad in your country when the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan praises the president… read the complete article
30 Nov 2017
Converging Islamophobias in Europe: The Visegrad Four Countries and their Western ‘Forerunners’
This op-ed by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared in Maydan. It was a weird moment: Shortly before the Austrian elections on 15 October this year, candidates of the then-winning parties, Sebastian… read the complete article
06 Nov 2017
Swinging to the right: Austria bans face veils
This op-ed by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared in Daily Sabah. It seems quite intentional that the ban on full-face veiling in public places, infamously known as the so called “Burka Ban,” came… read the complete article