Muslim-Americans

Dear Members of the U-M [University of Michigan] community We stand with our friends/students/colleagues and with the Central Student Government (CSG), Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA), and Senate Assembly in condemning the recent anti- Muslim, anti-immigrant, and anti-activist chalkings on the Diag. Whatever the political motivations of those engaged in such acts, their […]

Islam-hatred

American Muslims Challenge #AboutUsWithoutUs by Running for Office

contributors

Written by Bridge Initiative Team | – – An important hashtag has been circulating on Twitter for the past few weeks. #AboutUsWithoutUs. #AboutUsWithoutUs seeks to reorient national conversations about Muslim Americans to one that includes Muslim American voices in policy discussions. This is a critical distinction because Muslim Americans have largely been silent stakeholders to […]

Featured

How Americans Hate: 8-fold increase in Islamophobic Crime since 2000

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Congress passed the Hate Crime Statistics Act in 1990, and since then the FBI has been issuing annual reports on crimes of bias or hate crimes. I thought it might be useful to compare the year 2000, Bill Clinton’s last in office, with 2013 and with […]

Islam-hatred

Is Cruz even Worse re: anti-Muslim Hate Speech than Trump?

contributors

By Dan Dinello | (Informed Comment) | – – With his policies of bombing, bigotry and banning, Ted Cruz-ader fuels Islamophobia at home and promotes an anti-Muslim religious war abroad. “We will carpet-bomb them into oblivion,” said Ted Cruz describing his “strategy” for defeating ISIL. By definition, this would include obliterating cities and towns. In […]

Islam-hatred

Ad for Honey Maid Graham Crackers Challenges Hatred of Muslim Women

contributors

Written by Bridge Initiative Team | – – Honey Maid, the famous Graham cracker brand behind such delectable pleasures as “Morning Sticks” and “Teddy Grahams,” has thrown its cap in the ring of pluralism. In a new advertisement that is part of its “This is Wholesome” campaign, the company showcases a Muslim woman interacting with […]

Islam-hatred

The Ted Cruz solution won’t stop terrorism in the U.S.

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By Robert Pape and Walker Gunning | ( Chicago Tribune) | – – Most Americans felt the Brussels bombings in the pits of their stomachs. That’s natural. Terrorism’s greatest weapon is not those it kills immediately, but its ability to spread fear after the fact. That fear makes terrorism not just a political issue, but […]

Arab Americans

The Trump Doctrine: End NATO, Patrol Mosques, Nukes for Japan & Allies

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Anderson Cooper’s interview with Donald Trump on Tuesday evening had the advantage of allowing come-backs and close questioning. At one point Cooper pointed out to Trump that he sometimes behaved like a 5-year-old, as with his attacks on Heidi Cruz. At another, he wondered why Trump […]

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More US Muslims favor Bernie Sanders than do US Jews

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) published a new opinion poll on America’s Muslims and other religious groups this week, which contains some surprises. One important finding is that mosque attendance is associated with strong identification as an American and strong civic participation as […]

Islam-hatred

The American Muslims Trump doesn’t Know About

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Bridge Initiative Team | (Bridge) | – – In an interview with Donald Trump that aired on Wednesday on CNN, Anderson Cooper asked the Republican presidential frontrunner if he thought “Islam is at war with the West.” “I think Islam hates us,” Trump said, “There’s tremendous hatred there… We have to get to the bottom […]