…users between January 2013 and April 2014. The tweets came primarily from the United Kingdom, and were gleaned using three hashtag search strings: #Woolwich, #Muslim, and #Islam. His study resulted…
…term. In recent years, the word has been employed by anti-Muslim organizations that claim Muslims want to “impose” it on Western societies. Sharia literally means “path to life-giving water” in…
…data from voluntarily participating law enforcement agencies around the country. UCR data, therefore, is law enforcement-centric and quite discretionary in terms of what law enforcement agencies do and do not…
…a global child sex-trafficking ring.” It has been described as a “virtual cult” and is largely an umbrella term for multiple conspiracy theories. The conspiracy theory has been elevated by…
…while speaking at the conservative advocacy group Family Research Council, Gorka inaccurately claimed that 98 percent of terrorists are Muslims. Research by the New America Foundation found that since 9/11,…
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…
…and violent also helped rationalize European colonial domination of most of the Muslim majority world. American scholar Edward Said (d. 2003) used the term “orientalism” to describe the pattern of…
…they need to establish a patriarchal rule — which is how they characterize Sharia. Hence the invention of the term ‘White Sharia.’ The Daily Stormer, founded in 2013 and now…
…security measures on Muslims” and compared it to the process of “searching for rapists, [whereby] one looks only at the male population. Similarly, if searching for Islamists (adherents of radical…