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  1. Al Qaeda Is Attacking Major Syrian Cities with US Weapons -- but You Wouldn't Know That from the Media
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Norton analyzes media coverages of attacks linked to Al-Qaeda in the West to highlight how this emphasis on Muslim extremism is used to justify Islamophobia.
  2. Anti-Muslim Bigotry and Far-Right Terror
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Far-right ideology is fuelled by such a large mishmash of ideas that censoring anti-Muslim rhetoric is futile for stopping attacks.
  3. Bigotry in the Guise of Secularism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The murder at Charlie Hebdo and the Paris kosher supermarket have unleashed a wave of attacks on French Muslim communities, their culture and religion.The analysis by Carmen Teeple Hopkins helps explain the background of the present dangers and tragedies.
  4. Bigotry vs. Black Lives, Muslims, Immigrants
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Donald Trump and other Republican presidential candidates use hate and fear of these "others." Could this strategy win the 2016 presidency?
  5. Chasing a Mirage
    The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
  6. Defying Fundamentalism
    Book Review

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A review of "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism" By Karima Bennoune.
  7. English Defence League: new wave of extremists plotting summer of unrest
    Growth of anti-Muslim group raises fears of street violence

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    A profile of the supporters and the protests of the English Defence League, a right wing anti-Islam group of mostly white, young British men, many of them mobilized through their soccer clubs.
  8. Fanning the flames of intolerance
    The burning of books -- an ultimate form of control and condemnation

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    A historical overview of book burnings by political and religious regimes.
  9. Gay imperialism: Postcolonial particularity
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Since her refusal to accept the Berlin Pride Civil Courage Award, Judith Butler has been a leading critic of "homonationalism" and the closely related phenomenon of so-called "pinkwashing." Homonationalism is understood here as an ideology which uses a nation's liberal attitudes toward homosexuality as a means of encouraging racist attitudes toward other nations, on the grounds that they are supposedly less enlightened. Butler stated in a May 2010 address on "Queer Alliance and Antiwar Politics" in Ankara, Turkey that "in some parts of Europe and surely in Israel as well, the rights of homosexuals are defended in the name of nationalism."
  10. Islamophobia, Left and Right
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Should Muslims be worried about rising Islamophobia? Of course they should! Anti-Islam bigotry is becoming a key element of the revival of the far Right – a Right that doesn’t merely slander Muslims but also takes action against them.
  11. The Islamophobia Myth
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    Pretending that Muslims have never had it so bad might bolster community leaders and gain votes for politicians, but it does the rest of us, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, no favours at all. The more that the threat of Islamophobia is exaggerated, the more that ordinary Muslims come to accept that theirs is a community under constant attack. It helps create a siege mentality, stoking up anger and resentment, and making Muslim communities more inward looking and more open to religious extremism.
  12. "It's Killing the Student Movement": Canary Mission's Blacklist of Pro-Palestine Activists Is Taking a Toll
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Canary Mission, a website that compiles dossiers on Palestinian rights advocates and labels them racists, anti-Semites, and supporters of terrorism has taken a toll on activists' mental health and their ability to engage in free speech and public advocacy on Palestine.
  13. Murfreesboro vs. Islamophobia
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    When the Muslim community in Murfreesboro, Tennessee sought a permit to build an expanded Islamic Center, local bigots saw an opportunity to exploit the same "moral panic," invented by the Tea Party, the Christian Right and much of the corporate media, that would also emerge in New York around the so-called "Ground Zero mosque."
  14. Rethinking the challenge of anti-Muslim bigotry
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    In 1997 the British anti-racist organisation the Runnymede Trust published its highly influential report Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All. Twenty years on, the Runnymede Trust has brought out a follow-up report Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us All, which is a stock-take on current views, and facts, about the issue.
  15. The 712-page Google doc that proves Muslims do condemn terrorism
    When a classmate told 19-year-old Heraa Hashmi that “all terrorists are Muslims” she began to compile a dossier of all instances of Muslims

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Muslims are constantly denouncing atrocities that have been committed in the name of Islam. Yet many people seem to think Muslims don't condemn terrorism enough. So Heraa Hashmi decided to put the notion to the test.
  16. Southwest Airlines kicks Muslim off a plane for saying 'inshallah', meaning 'God willing' in Arabic
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A Muslim man was told to leave a Southwest Airlines flight after another passenger overheard him speaking Arabic on his mobile phone.
  17. Trump, Namazie, Islam, Free Speech and the Left
    Resource Type: Article
    On the odd relationship that many on the left have with Islam. They view all Muslims as helpless victims, and regard any criticism of Islam as a form of bigotry.
  18. An Unholy Alliance
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Fleischmann looks at the reasons behind the unlikely alliance that has formed between Trump, the alt-right, and Israel, who have based their support for each other around shared enemies.
  19. US man's bank payment denied because of his dog's 'terrorist' name
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Sometimes terrorists move on all fours. That's what Chase Bank apparently decided when it wouldn't clear a payment for a disabled man's dog walker. It was the dog's name that led to the payment being bounced and the Treasury Department being involved.
  20. When Does Criticism of Islam become Islamophobia?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Basic points that undergird about the relationship between criticism, Islam and Islamophobia. We should stop being so obsessed by the distinction between legitimate criticism and Islamophobia, and start thinking about how an obsession with both Islam and Islamophobia distorts our culture and our debates.
  21. Why Opposing Islamophobia is not a Defense of Extremism
    Standing Up Against Knee-Jerk Discrimination and Xenophobia

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Recent events have generated a lot of debate about Islam, Muslims, free speech and Islamophobia. Unfortunately, much of that debate has fallen back upon rather tired arguments about not only what "Muslims are like" but also how those who oppose Islamophobia are somehow defending repression or appeasing extremists.

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