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Research & Resources
Netherlands’ Top Islamophobe Wins 2023 Election
“Islam is not a religion; it’s an ideology, the ideology of a retarded culture,” once said Dutch politician Geert Wilders whose far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) shockingly won the most number of parliamentary seats in the recent November 2023 election in the Netherlands. Known by many as the Dutch version of Donald Trump, this former fringe politician is now poised to possibly become the next prime minister, which is sending shockwaves to millions of minorities living in the Netherlands today.
American Muslim Group Files Lawsuit to End FBI Watchlists
The post-9/11 racial profiling adage of “Flying While Muslim” has impacted millions of Muslims, Arabs and South Asians all over the world for the last two decades. To challenge the constitutionality of these secret government watchlists, which almost exclusively single out Muslims, the largest American Muslim civil rights organization in the US recently filed a…