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The Bridge Initiative is a multi-year research project on Islamophobia housed in Georgetown University

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Factsheet

08 Dec 2017 | Individuals

Factsheet: David Yerushalmi

David Yerushalmi has played an active role in generating anti-Muslim rhetoric. Through his organizations SANE and AFLC, Yerushalmi has launched various anti-sharia campaigns and awareness drives that have shaped anti-sharia policies across the country. He has also been an advocate for the criminalization of adherence to sharia and Islam. read the complete article

Factsheet

08 Dec 2017 | Individuals

Factsheet: Frank Wuco

Frank Wuco is a senior adviser at the State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance. He previously worked in the Department of Homeland Security, where he headed the Muslim Ban implementation task force. Before joining the Trump Administration, Wuco made a career as a radio host and by advising the U.S. military as a roleplaying, fictional “jihadist.” He has also made statements, at times sexually explicit, that advocate surveillance, violence, nuclear bombing, and discrimination against Muslims. read the complete article

Factsheet

08 Dec 2017 | Individuals

Factsheet: Jeff Sessions

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ties to anti-Muslim organizations and individuals, such as Stephen Miller, the Center for Security Policy, Frank Gaffney, and David Horowitz and his Freedom Center. In addition to his anti-immigration and anti-civil rights remarks and voting record in Congress, Sessions has claimed that Islam is a “totalitarian threat” and believes that sharia is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution. read the complete article

Factsheet

08 Dec 2017 | Individuals

Factsheet: John Guandolo

John Guandolo conducts anti-Muslim law enforcement trainings throughout the United States, propagates anti-Muslim conspiracy theories about Muslim Brotherhood infiltration in the U.S. government, and has worked closely with anti-Muslim organizations like the Center for Security Policy and ACT for America. read the complete article

Factsheet

12 Sep 2017 | Individuals

Factsheet: Andrew McCarthy

Andrew McCarthy, who has served as an advisor to leading Republican politicians like Ted Cruz, has worked with anti-Muslim groups like the Center for Security Policy and the David Horowitz Freedom Center to advance falsified and unfounded claims about Muslims. read the complete article

Factsheet

12 Sep 2017 | Individuals

Factsheet: David Horowitz & the Freedom Center

Through his anti-Muslim group, the David Horowitz Freedom Center, David Horowitz has become a leading voice promoting conspiracy theories and falsified information about Muslims, the ‘Left,’ African Americans, and other communities. The Center funds and gives a platform to a wide array of other anti-Muslim organizations and has direct connections to the Trump administration. read the complete article

Factsheet

12 Sep 2017 | Individuals

Factsheet: Mike Pompeo

On March 13, 2018, President Trump announced that Mike Pompeo (current CIA Director) would replace Rex Tillerson as U.S. Secretary of State. Pompeo has connections with anti-Muslim groups, including Center for Security Policy and ACT for America. Pompeo has stated that Muslim leaders may be complicit in terrorist attacks for not sufficiently condemning them, and as a Member of Congress he co-sponsored legislation to criminalize Muslims and Muslim organizations in the U.S. read the complete article

Factsheet

29 Jul 2017 | Individuals

Factsheet: Frank Gaffney

Like his colleagues at other anti-Muslim groups, Center for Security Policy head Frank Gaffney sees Islam as a national security threat and has advanced falsified claims about sharia, Muslim "infiltration," and "civilization jihad." Many of his views have been adopted by Republican politicians, as well as President Trump and his administration, including the director of the CIA. read the complete article