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The infrastructure built to treat Muslim identity as a security threat didn't disappear: it expanded. Today it's been repurposed against immigrant communities, with the same executive powers first justified by 9/11. @mobbiemobes breaks down 25 yrs of this:
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Here’s how Arabs have made vital contributions to the human understanding of maths, science and literature through the centuries.
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Indian authorities first stripped millions of citizens of their right to vote and are now beating and jailing them for peacefully protesting these rights violations.
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"A Democratic Party that won’t fully accept Muslim candidates isn’t a party that actually practices the principles of democracy, diversity, inclusion, pluralism, and multiculturalism that it preaches."
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"The right’s antisemitism and Islamophobia come from the same ideology: white Christian nationalism. In this ideology, both Jews and Muslims are the “other,” the threats to society and a way of life."
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In the US, India, and Israel, the threat of denaturalization is being used to silence dissent.
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French prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into death threats against Muslims and racist hate speech broadcast during a live discussion on social media platform X:
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US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has condemned anti-Muslim election rhetoric, warning of its impact on the community during a press conference in Michigan. Tlaib said the hateful political adverts on television have also affected her own family.
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The London Police Service’s hate crime unit is investigating an incident involving a man who told a woman wearing a hijab that Muslims do not belong in Canada.
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"Republicans are making Islamophobia their midterm platform, turning anti-Muslim rhetoric into policy at the very moment Muslim Americans are gaining political ground." via @mobbiemobes
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From an obsession with "sharia law" to Muslim immigration, Republican officials have homed in on 1 percent of the US population as the single greatest threat to the country, and it does not stop at rhetoric.
The latest from Bridge AD @mobbiemobes:
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We're witnessing an unprecedented surge in Islamophobia coming from the party in power. This is extremely dangerous, as this rhetoric criminalizes Muslim identity and could embolden those who seek to act on their hate.
Sen. @tedcruz (R-TX) says that if U.S. Sen. candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) is elected into the Senate and is placed in the Senate Intelligence Committee, "there is a very real risk that Americans will die as a result."
"Trump's raid on the congresswoman's home is a warning to every naturalised American that even a seat in Congress offers no protection against racist persecution" @azadessa
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The UN's envoy on Islamophobia warned that hostility toward Muslims was becoming embedded in Europe's political discourse and spreading through its institutions, likening its spread to a "metastasis."
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In Honor of Dr. John Esposito: The Scholar Who Changed How the West Saw and Imagined Islam and the Muslim World:
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Muslims in Britain have “lived through some of the worst examples of division” and hatred, Andy Burnham told community leaders as he vowed to draw a line under a “decade of division”.
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Many Muslims saw their places of worship destroyed or abandoned during the sectarian violence of India’s partition in 1947. Now villagers of many faiths are coming together to revive them
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The Bridge Initiative retweeted
Media Analyis: How U.S. Corporate News Organizations Erase Religion When The Hero Is Muslim
How American newsrooms last week turned a Muslim hero's scripture into a plug for a TV show, and why the edit matters more than any lie.
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Bridge AD @mobbiemobes spoke with @JamalDajani for @ArabTalk on the roots of Islamophobia and its unprecedented level in the US today, and how this can also be seen as a backlash to rising Muslim American political organizing:
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Bridge AD @mobbiemobes will be taking part in this panel discussion hosted by @CSID_DC and @mpac_national on how Islamophobia betrays American values and undermines its interests
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The Bridge Initiative retweeted
Fifteen years ago, Trump was demanding Obama show his birth certificate to prove he's American. Today, Trump and his allies make clear that proof of being American is not dependent on records, but on something else.
