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Research & Resources
Erasing Muslims from the “West”: Islamophobic campaigns across Europe and the US
Anti-Islam movements are becoming increasingly visible across Europe and the US. These movements differ from country to country, but their aim is the same: to create nationalist identities that exclude Muslims. In both the United States and Europe, there is an identity discourse based on a belief in an idealized homogeneity of a “pure”…
Europe’s Fearmonger: Czech President Milos Zeman′s re-election
This op-ed by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared in Qantara. The Czech Republic has once again elected Milos Zeman as president, a leader who applauds Donald Trump’s ban on Muslims entering the USA and who sees himself as a prophet warning against immigration and an imagined Islamic threat. Zeman has attained considerable international…
Frank Gaffney, the Muslim Ban and the Supreme Court
In August 2017, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), which describes itself as “the Nation’s first truly authentic Judeo-Christian, public interest law firm,” filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court in support of the Muslim Ban. The brief was filed on behalf of seven “national security experts.” They included AFLC advisory board members…