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The Bridge Initiative is a multi-year research project on Islamophobia housed in Georgetown University.
The Bridge Initiative aims to disseminate original and accessible research, offers engaging analysis and commentary on contemporary issues, and hosts a wide repository of educational resources to inform the general public about Islamophobia.
Research & Resources
Facebook’s failure to tackle hate speech online has real world consequences
An August 14th article in the Wall Street Journal revealed that top Facebook policy executives in India failed to remove hate speech promoted by Hindu nationalists despite the content being “flagged internally for promoting violence.” Ankhi Das, Facebook’s top policy executive in India, ignored the call to remove the posts, citing concerns that such action…
Concentration camps, police state, and now forced birth control: How China is committing genocide against Uighur Muslims
China’s decades-long repression of Uighur and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang (referred to by many Uighurs as East Turkestan) drastically increased in its brutality and reach in 2017. Since then, Beijing has transformed the region into a police state equipped with advanced technology aimed at documenting and tracking every aspect of Muslims’ lives in the…
Protected: FACTSHEET: Torture at Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp
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