Farid Hafez, Author at Bridge Initiative

25 Sep 2017

October elections in Austria: Beware of Islamophobes

With the campaign for elections to the Austrian National Council in full swing, a gloomy picture is already emerging on the issue of Islam. Since 2008, Austria′s Muslim population, largely made up of low-skilled workers,... read the complete article

Article

22 Sep 2017

The Role of Islamophobia in the Upcoming German Federal Election

The Federal Chancellor’s image is currently used as the imagination of the liberal opposite pole in the free world to the right-wing populism of Donald Trump. And she has been in power since 2005, and... read the complete article

Article

19 Sep 2017

The Global Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory

The Islamophobic Network In January this year, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz introduced a bill for the second time to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. Sen. Cruz was mainly guided in this... read the complete article

Editorial

28 Aug 2017

Nationalists 1st: Trump, Charlottesville, and racists

Donald Trump successfully drew on the many success stories of right-wing populist parties in Europe to win the elections and become president of the United States of America. He used a slogan that has been... read the complete article

Article

21 Aug 2017

The (sexual) Inferiority Complex of White Supremacists: Charlottesville and the Call for ‘White Sharia’

“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist” is a quote from the lifelong and famous anti-racist activist scholar Angela Davis[1]. While many Americans think that President Donald... read the complete article

Editorial

11 Aug 2017

When anti-Semitism and Islamophobia join hands

This op-ed by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared in Al Jazeera. There was probably a time when the current leader of the Hungarian conservative party, Fidesz, Viktor Orban, was quite grateful... read the complete article