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07 Oct 2021 | Policy/Law

The Terror Trap: The Impact of the War on Terror on Muslim Communities Since 9/11

On October 7, 2021, 20 years since the U.S. launched the War in Afghanistan as part of its Global War on Terror, a group of seven civil society and research organizations, including The Bridge Initiative, are releasing a detailed report on the impact and consequences of the War on Terror. read the complete article

Factsheet

13 Jul 2021 | Law Enforcement

Factsheet: Islam, Immigration, and the American Courts

The Naturalization Era (1790–1952) was a defining period for immigration and conceptualizations of citizenship in the United States. During this era, Muslim immigration and naturalization were limited by laws that barred or severely restricted immigration from Muslim-majority areas of the world and court rulings that reserved naturalization rights for white individuals. read the complete article

Editorial

27 Apr 2021 | Policy/Law

On the Tenth Anniversary of the Radicalization Hearings, What Has Changed?

Last month represented the ten year anniversary of Peter King’s radicalization hearings. Held between March 2011 and June 2012, the five congressional hearings on the purported radicalization of the American Muslim community amplified Islamophobia on... read the complete article

Factsheet

16 Mar 2021 | Policy/Law

FACTSHEET: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION ACT OF 1993 (RFRA)

IMPACT: The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) was passed by the United States Congress in 1993 to prohibit the federal government from burdening a person’s free exercise of religion. Currently, twenty-one states have also passed... read the complete article

Factsheet

24 Feb 2021 | Policy/Law

Factsheet: PUBLIC OPINION POLLS ON MUSLIMS AND ISLAM IN AUSTRALIA

IMPACT: Public polling data in Australia (2007–2020) reveals that most Australians have little to no reported close contact with Muslims, significant negative feeling towards Muslims, and concerns about immigration from Muslim countries. The polls also... read the complete article

Editorial

08 Feb 2021 | Policy/Law

For Sri Lanka’s Muslims, discrimination even in death

It’s been over a year since the first strain of COVID-19 was discovered in Wuhan, China. Since then, the novel coronavirus has wreaked havoc across the world with over two million individuals losing their lives,... read the complete article

Editorial

19 Nov 2020 | Law Enforcement

Xinjiang and Kristallnacht in Austria: Freedom of Religion Under Threat

On November 9 of this year, the Austrian government commemorated Kristallnacht of 1938—known as the “Night of the Broken Glass”—a series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria that took place on... read the complete article

Factsheet

19 Oct 2020 | Policy/Law

Factsheet: Hoja Informativa 2: el Acuerdo de Cooperación de 1992

IMPACTO: El Acuerdo de Cooperación de 1992 establecido entre el estado español y la Unión de Comunidades Islámicas alberga una serie de regulaciones legales para garantizar los derechos de los musulmanes que viven en España. Áreas esenciales para su desarrollo como ciudadanos plenos, tales como la enseñanza del islam en las escuelas o la regulación de lugares de culto religioso fueron incluidas en el Acuerdo. read the complete article

Factsheet

17 Sep 2020 | Policy/Law

Factsheet: CEUTA y MELILLA. DOS CIUDADES MUSULMANAS EN ESPAÑA

IMPACT: Ceuta y Melilla son ciudades autónomas españolas en el norte de África. Ambas ciudades hacen de frontera entre España y Marruecos. Aunque tienen gobiernos autónomos, sus sistemas educativos están gestionados por la Junta de... read the complete article

Article

27 Jul 2020 | Military

Concentration camps, police state, and now forced birth control: How China is committing genocide against Uighur Muslims

China’s decades-long repression of Uighur and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang (referred to by many Uighurs as East Turkestan) drastically increased in its brutality and reach in 2017. Since then, Beijing has transformed the region... read the complete article