Islamophobia

Hamline Controversy Shows How Religion and Neoliberal Administration Converge to Reject Expertise

by Alexander Jabbari

An instructive contrast can be drawn from a 1997 controversy over a frieze depicting Muhammad on the wall of the United States Supreme Court. Since then, post-9/11 Islamophobia, a culture of deliberate trolling under the banner of free speech, and the rise of corporate-style university management have drained the capacity for nuance.

Hamline Administrators Won't Let the Academic Freedom Controversy Die

Adminstrators and the local chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations have defended a personnel decision that academic freedom advocate have called egregious. 

The Islamophobia of Domestic Security and the Capitol Insurrection

by Juan Cole

Perhaps if the FBI hadn't been spending the last 20 years spying on American Muslims the organizing of white Christian nationalists leading to to the January 6 assault on the Capitol would't have been an apparent surprise to the authorities. 

The key to defeating the far right’s online hate

by Michelle Kelley

“History provides lessons on how to pit popular culture against Internet hate speech and racist propaganda.”

Hating Muslims in the Age of Trump

by Juan Cole

The New Islamophobia Looks Like the Old McCarthyism.

Study: American Kids Are Learning Islamophobia From Their Textbooks

by Melissa Levinson

"My research on world history textbooks used across the country finds that sections about Islam and the Middle East advance a “rise and fall” narrative."

What A 19th Century Campaign To Declare Mormons ‘Non-White’ Tells Us About Modern Islamophobia

by Jack Jenkins

There is one particularly unusual historical example that helps make sense of today’s barrage of Islamophobia: when American writers, politicians, and even scientists argued that Mormons — yes, Mormons — weren’t white.

College Professor, Students Sport Yellow Jewish Stars to ‘Protest Islamophobia’

While advocating against what they said is a growing trend in anti-Muslim rhetoric, the professor and students wore Jewish stars inscribed with the word, “Muslim.”

Islamophobia Is an American Tradition

by Karine Walther

And it's undermining our understanding at every turn.

What Does 'Islamophobia' Actually Mean?

by Tanya Basu

A brief history of a provocative word

Humayun Ansari: Islamophobia Rises in British Society

Humayun Ansari is a Professor of History of Islam and Culture in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. On the 8th anniversary of the 7/7 London bombings, and in the aftermath of the killing of British army soldier Lee Rigby, it is timely to assess how Islamophobia within Britain’s political landscape has evolved since that tragic day in July 2005. Much evidence suggests that Islamophobia has moved beyond small fringe far-right groups to being far more widespread across broad sections of the population.