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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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"From Gaza to migration policy and debates over the headscarf, Belgium illustrates how Islamophobia is increasingly framed through the language of security, neutrality, and demographic anxiety."
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The Bridge Initiative retweeted
The Islamophobia in the Michigan Senate race is officially at nuclear-grade levels.
1. Ted Cruz claiming Abdul El-Sayed might share classified intel with the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorists
2. Trump calling AES "Mohammed" and mocking his name
3. Mike Rogers trying to tie AES's biological mom, whom he stopped being raised by when he was 3, to Al-Qaeda
This stuff is more pernicious than most people acknowledge today. Republicans could win this race by challenging AES's ideas, but they apparently can't help themselves but fear monger about his faith.
Florida Rep. Randy Fine wrote: “We need more Islamophobia, not less. Fear of Islam is rational.”
Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles: Muslims “don’t belong in American society.”
Alabama Sen Tommy Tuberville saying “The enemy is inside the gates" about Zohran, next to pictures of the Twin Towers burning on 9/11.
It has a very particular, distinct post 9/11 vibe to it. Really, really unhinged and ugly shit, and not nearly enough people calling it out.
The Bridge Initiative retweeted
This week’s newsletter: I wrote about the GOPs strategy of Islamophobia has been aided by Democrats and the press. And I find the lack of pushback not only immoral but shortsighted.
We either all have a place in democracy or we don’t. And the forces seeking to marginalize their place in the American project will likely expand to others
On @voxdotcom: vox.com/politics/507163/midt…
The Bridge Initiative retweeted
"Through analysis of over thirty-one case studies of Muslim American candidates and elected officials between 2001-2026, four distinct manifestations of Islamophobia pervade electoral politics:
1) conspiracy theories of an Islamic invasion and imposition of Sharia law,
2) gendered Islamophobia,
3) political violence,
4) presumptions of antisemitism"
The Bridge Initiative retweeted
New Report:
Punished for Participating: Islamophobia in U.S. Electoral Politics
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday blamed “foreign leaders,” including those “on the other side of the Atlantic,” for trying to exploit France’s tense social climate for their own political agenda.
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‘I’m tired of people denigrating Muslims for being Muslims’ Former US President Bill Clinton quoted the Quran during a speech in Koinonia Worship Centre in Florida condemning discrimination against Muslims.
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A new far-right party, Alianca Catalana, or Catalan Alliance (AC), which wants a crackdown on migration and has targeted Islam as a threat to society, has surged in the polls in a region with the largest Muslim population in Spain.
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"Trump’s campaign of retribution is unlikely to spare any enemy. Muslims may be the focus right now. But there’s no telling who’s next. You’re either for a multiracial, multifaith coalition — or you’re not."
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On Wednesday night in the Senedd, members of Reform called for Muslim religious face coverings, such as the burka, to be banned.
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"The Trump administration is waging a multi-pronged war on Somali people, painting them as criminals, murderers, and terrorists and using multiple federal agencies to target them at home and abroad." via @nickturse
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Muslim and Arab candidates often must prove more than their qualifications: that their faith, family, and foreign policy views pose no threat. Scrutinizing a record is legitimate. Treating Muslim identity as grounds for suspicion is not.
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"When the Muslim in question is also a first generation Egyptian American of Arab descent, it generates an online free for all, and a pile-on at Republican rallies and events where naked bigotry is rewarded with cheers and laughter." via @marionmckeone
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The man who attempted to ambush the Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed with a question about his loyalty to the US is the son of a political operator who recently received $250,000 for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed
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A parliamentary inquiry has been launched into the Home Office’s protective security for mosques scheme after Hyphen’s reporting revealed it had left hundreds of vulnerable mosques in limbo.
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The ad, subtly connecting El-Sayed’s Muslim faith to people of all belief systems across Michigan, comes as Trump and others ramp up Islamophobic attacks on the progressive former public health official, with two weeks to go until Election Day.
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Dr. Esposito left us a discipline of better questions (whose Islam, which movement, under what conditions) rather than a verdict on Islam and the West. In an age of sweeping judgments, that habit of specificity may be his most lasting gift.
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While the far right’s readiness to exploit crises to fuel Islamophobia is to be expected, the idea that Islam and Muslims are to blame for Europe’s growing woes is no longer reserved for that extreme of the European political spectrum. via @ferithafez
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The Bridge Initiative retweeted
Pleased to join Rutgers’ Center for Security, Race, and Rights for the virtual launch of its forthcoming report, Punished for Participation, on Islamophobic attacks against Muslim American political candidates.
Joining Yasmine Taeb and Urooj Ali on October 27 to discuss the findings and their implications for Muslim political participation and civic engagement.
📅 October 27 | 2 p.m. ET
Register: go.rutgers.edu/punishedforpa…
Evans' warning comes as MI5 Director-General Sir Ken McCallum reports a growing threat from extreme right-wing terrorism, particularly cases involving anti-immigration and anti-Muslim grievances.
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