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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 Jew, the Muslim and White Supremacist Terror
John T. Earnest is the name of the latest white supremacist to murder worshipers, this time in a Chabad synagogue in Poway, near San Diego, California. He shot four people, killing one, allegedly to save the white race, honoring Brenton Tarrant, the white supremacist who killed 50 people in two mosques in Christchurch six weeks ago. He also claimed responsibility for an arson attack on a mosque in the nearby town of Escondido. Like New Zealand’s terrorist, Earnest claimed he had left a manifesto for the world, but his ‘manifesto’ was merely a nine-page anti-Semitic and racist rant.
Can States Be Terrorists? An Interview with Dr. David Luban
From Georgetown University, this is Voices on Islamophobia, a podcast by the Bridge Initiative. I’m Hannah Sullivan. Throughout the month of April 2019, the topic of Foreign Terrorist Organizations made major headlines in the U.S.. On April 8th, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the United States planned to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary…
Xinjiang: collateral damage of China’s belligerent nationalism
Today, there are 3 million Uyghurs in internment camps in Xinjiang, stripped of civic rights and made powerless by a new, dangerous brand of Chinese nationalism. Historically, nationalism has often relied on the identification of a counter threat, and sustained by the vilification of a perceived enemy. In much of the world today, that threat…