United States Archives - Page 7 of 19

02 Jun 2020 | Individuals

Factsheet: Peter King

IMPACT: Republican Representative Peter King of New York led the 2011 congressional hearings on the “radicalization” of American Muslims. The hearings added further stigmatization to the American Muslim community and were described by legal rights... read the complete article

Factsheet

22 May 2020

Factsheet: No-Go Zone Conspiracy Theory

IMPACT: The “no-go zone” is an anti-Muslim conspiracy theory claiming there are areas in Europe and the U.S. with dense Muslim populations that are governed by Sharia law and where police and non-residents are barred... read the complete article

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14 May 2020

Factsheet: Paul Sperry

IMPACT: Paul Sperry is an American conservative journalist who previously served as a Washington bureau chief for the right-wing, conspiratorial website, WorldNetDaily. Sperry is a former media fellow at The Hoover Institution and has authored... read the complete article

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11 May 2020 | Law Enforcement

Factsheet: The NYPD Muslim Surveillance and Mapping Program

IMPACT: The New York Police Department’s (NYPD) Muslim Surveillance and Mapping Program began under Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2001 and monitored Muslim communities in New York City and nearby states until 2014. A secret unit... read the complete article

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28 Apr 2020

Factsheet: Zuhdi Jasser

IMPACT: M. Zuhdi Jasser is a Syrian-American physician, author, and commentator. He is the founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) and a co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement (MRM). Jasser has used... read the complete article

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24 Apr 2020 | Organizations

Factsheet: Muslim Reform Movement

IMPACT: The Muslim Reform Movement is an international coalition of Muslims that purportedly seeks to counter the ideology of Islamism by reforming Islam. The coalition and its members leverage ‘insider’ Muslim identities to advocate surveillance... read the complete article

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22 Apr 2020

Factsheet: Lorenzo Vidino

IMPACT: Lorenzo Vidino is an Italian American legal scholar whose research promotes conspiracy theories about the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe and the United States. Vidino is connected to numerous anti-Muslim think tanks in the United... read the complete article

Editorial

15 Apr 2020

Islamophobia Has No Place in the Fight Against COVID-19

Originally published by Truthout.org on April 14, 2020. From politics to social media, Muslims or anything associated with Islam (whether correctly or not) are dehumanized as objects against which to measure the intensity or severity... read the complete article

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17 Mar 2020

Factsheet: PragerU

IMPACT: PragerU, short for Prager University, is an American conservative organization that produces content to promote“Judeo-Christian values” to their millions of followers through short, lecture-style videos. Although it is not an academic institution, by using... read the complete article

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03 Feb 2020 | Terms/Tropes

Factsheet: Great Replacement/White Genocide Conspiracy Theory

IMPACT: The white genocide conspiracy theory is the belief that immigration by people of color, falling white birth rates, and the promotion of multiculturalism are all part of a deliberate plot to destroy the “white... read the complete article