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The Bridge Initiative is a multi-year research project on Islamophobia housed in Georgetown University.
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Research & Resources
Does Islamophobia Impact the Underreporting of FBI Hate Crime Data?
Federal Data Collection on Hate Crimes: A History Since its first publication in 1991, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released an annual report on hate crime data. The FBI employs the hate crime definition as established in the Hate Crime Statistics Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1990: “crimes that manifest evidence…
Donald Trump Has Never Stopped Lying About Muslims
This op-ed by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Arsalan Iftikhar originally appeared in HuffPost. It’s been just over two years since then-candidate Donald Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” It’s not quite 11 months since his administration first announced the institution of a travel ban on visitors from…
President Trump’s whole political career has been built on Islamophobia
This op-ed by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Arsalan Iftikhar originally appeared in The Washington Post. You know things are bad in your country when the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan praises the president of the United States for retweeting misleading videos about Muslims, peddled by a right-wing hate group from England whose leader…