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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 Global Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory
The Islamophobic Network In January this year, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz introduced a bill for the second time to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. Sen. Cruz was mainly guided in this affair by Frank Gaffney, the leader of the well-funded Center for Security Policy, which is recognized by the Southern Poverty…
Highlights from 2017 Brookings US-Islamic World Forum
As the city of New York prepared to host the 193-member United Nations convening of the 2017 UN General Assembly, the Big Apple was also hosting hundreds of international participants for the 13th annual 2017 US-Islamic World Forum co-sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Gulf state of Qatar. The theme for this year’s 2017 US-Islamic…
Islamophobic Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims
Under international law, the concept of “ethnic cleansing” was first officially investigated by the United Nations during the Balkan genocide in the former Yugoslavia during the mid-1990’s. A U.N. commission of experts generally defined the term “ethnic cleansing” as “rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove persons of given groups from the…