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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
The Rising Far-Right in Eastern Germany
This weekend, two major German states will go to the ballots. Sachsen and Brandenburg, two politically quite different states, will elect the next state parliament. And the last polls made by the ZDF Polit Barometer reveal no good news. Sachsen, which has been ruled by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since the reunification back in 1990, has to…
The Manifesto of the El Paso Terrorist
On 6 August, 2019, a white supremacist (Patrick Crusius) committed a terrorist attack that killed twenty-two people. Prior to the execution, he left a ‘manifesto’ for the public similar to the ‘manifestos’ written by other white supremacist terrorists. Like Anders Behring Breivik (now Fjotolf Hansen), who killed 77 people in Oslo and Utøya, Norway and…
Christchurch Mosque Terrorist Inspired U.S. Mass Murderers
In March 2019 a young Australian white supremacist walked into two different mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. While streaming his massacre on Facebook Live, this anti-Muslim terrorist proceeded to murder 51 innocent worshipers during Friday prayers in one of the worst acts of Islamophobic terrorism in modern history (and New Zealand’s worst terrorist attack ever)….