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The Bridge Initiative is a multi-year research project on Islamophobia housed in Georgetown University

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Factsheet

27 Mar 2018 | Individuals

Factsheet: John Bolton

John Bolton was one of the individuals in the George W. Bush Administration who misled the United States about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq, and who continues to advocate using force against Iran and North Korea. He has connections with leading anti-Muslim voices and organizations, including Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Frank Gaffney and David Horowitz. On March 22, 2018, President Donald Trump nominated Bolton as the next National Security Advisor. read the complete article

Factsheet

20 Mar 2018 | Individuals

Factsheet: Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro is a conservative political commentator with a large national platform as a popular podcast show host and Young America’s Foundation-sponsored speaker at college campuses. Shapiro has a history of making derogatory, generalizing and inflammatory comments about Muslims, Arabs, African-Americans, transgender people and others. He previously worked at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, an organization that espouses Islamophobic views. read the complete article

Factsheet

14 Mar 2018 | Organizations

Factsheet: Young America’s Foundation

The Young America’s Foundation is a conservative youth outreach organization that has chapters at high schools and universities across the country. YAF helps bring conservative speakers to college campuses and its speakers roster includes a number of anti-Muslim activists, speakers, and thinkers. One of its university chapters was identified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. read the complete article

Factsheet

05 Feb 2018 | Individuals

Factsheet: Tom Cotton

During his tenure in the U.S. Congress, Cotton advocated the strengthening of surveillance and metadata collection programs, and the curtailing of immigration to the United States — ostensibly as a workaround of then-candidate Trump’s Muslim ban proposal. Cotton has also voiced controversial views about torture, the Guantánamo Bay prison facility, the Iranian nuclear deal negotiations, and “Islamic” violence. read the complete article