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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 (sexual) Inferiority Complex of White Supremacists: Charlottesville and the Call for ‘White Sharia’
“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist” is a quote from the lifelong and famous anti-racist activist scholar Angela Davis[1]. While many Americans think that President Donald Trump’s initial response to the August 12, 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was inadequate, an adequate response can…
What If Charlottesville Protesters Were Black Muslims?
If you do not believe that there is a “white privilege” double-standard in America today, the only thing that you need to ask yourself in the aftermath of the Charlottesville protests is the following question: What if the white supremacist neo-Nazi protestors in Charlottesville were black Muslims instead? “We’re going to fulfill the promises of…
When anti-Semitism and Islamophobia join hands
This op-ed by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared in Al Jazeera. There was probably a time when the current leader of the Hungarian conservative party, Fidesz, Viktor Orban, was quite grateful to George Soros. Back in 1988, as a 25-year-old fresh law graduate, he became a member of the Central-Eastern Europe…