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Research & Resources
Kicking Islamophobia: France, the World Cup & the enduring Problem of Racism
This article by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared on the Islamophobia Research & Documentation project’s website. Let me admit something before starting these lines of thought. Like most soccer games before, I have not watched a single soccer game of this year’s World Cup. By my own biography, I was hoping for an African or South American…
How anti-Muslim rhetoric drives the imperialist “Global War on Terror”
Nine days following the deadly attacks on September 11, 2001, then-president George W. Bush publicly announced the “war on terror.” In the pivotal speech, the former president vowed to defend American freedoms in the face of terror but noted that it wasn’t “just America’s fight.” Rather, it was the world’s fight — “a civilization’s fight.”…