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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
Christchurch Anniversary: The Islamophobic ‘Great Replacement’ Theory
On March 15, 2019, a 29-year-old white supremacist walked into two different mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand and live-streamed his mass murder of 51 Muslim worshippers in the bloodiest act of Islamophobic terrorism in modern history. As we commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Christchurch massacre, the most treacherous legacy of the New Zealand mosque…
Muslims in Modi’s India: What Would Gandhi Say?
“I am a Muslim and a Hindu and a Christian and a Jew– and so are all of you,” the father of India Mohandas Gandhi once allegedly told some of his followers during the height of anti-Muslim tensions before the 1947 partition of India. During his lifetime trying to create a multi-ethnic and multi-religious secular…
Remembering Auschwitz, Deploying Islamopohbia?
Last month, political and religious leaders around the world commemorated the end of the Nazi cruelty, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp, the Konzentrationslager. The systematic industrial killing of six million Jews is especially commemorated in the historical heartland of the German Reich of Adolf Hitler. And nowhere is the…