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Research & Resources
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…
Mosque Bombed & Trump Doesn’t Care
Let us imagine if we woke up one fine Sunday morning to hear the news of a bombing at a Minnesota church full of white blond-haired parishioners preparing to begin their morning prayers. If that hypothetical scenario did occur, do you think that Donald Trump’s Twitter feed or any media outlet would waste any time in calling that…