Image: from “For Muslim Americans, a spike in hate incidents feels reminiscent of post 9/11 Islamophobia.”
Selected Books
Sahar F. Aziz: The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom.
Khaled A. Beydoun:
- The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims.
- American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear.
Jordan Denari Duffner: Islamophobia: What Christians Should Know (and Do) About Anti-Muslim Discrimination.
Todd H. Green: The Fear of Islam: An Introduction to Islamophobia in the West.
Deepa Kumar: Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire: Twenty years after 9/11.
Arun Kundnani: The Muslims Are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror.
Nathan Lean: The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Hatred of Muslims.
Videos
Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, the Media & the War on Terror.
Deepa Kumar: “Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire”: Deepa Kumar on How Racism Fueled U.S. Wars Post-9/11.
San Francisco Interfaith Council: Combating Islamophobia, Antisemitism, & Ensuring Security at Mosques & Synagogues.
Educational Resources
Resource collection by Islamophobia scholar Todd H. Green.
Islamic Networks Group: Countering Islamophobia in Education.
Organizations
Berkeley Center for Race and Gender: Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project.
Council on American-Islamic Relations
Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative
Increased Islamophobia in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel, and the Israeli invasion of Gaza in October, 2023
October 16. Hannah Allam: Palestinian American boy stabbed to death in hate crime, sheriff says: Authorities cite the war between Israel and Gaza as a factor in the deadly attack on a Muslim family in Illinois.
October 17. Erum Salam: US Muslim groups warn over rise in violence after boy, six, killed in Illinois.
October 17. Marlene Lenthang: ‘We don’t wear that in this country’: Man punches Sikh teen in turban on NYC bus.
October 18. Simmone Shah: The Israel-Hamas War Is Leading to an Uptick in Hate Crimes.
October 19. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR): Terror Threats Force Va. Marriott Hotel to Cancel CAIR’s Annual Banquet.
October 20. Alex Seitz-Wald: Muslim members of Congress face spikes in death threats: Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., one of Congress’ highest-profile progressive members, said she worries for her children’s safety as her office is inundated with profanity-laced threats.
October 23. Marc Santia: Muslim teen girl called ‘terrorist,’ attacked while riding subway to school.
October 25. NPR: When Israeli-Palestinian conflicts erupt, threats against U.S. Jews and Muslims surge.
October 31. Sakshi Venkatraman and Mirna Alsharif: For Muslim Americans, a spike in hate incidents feels reminiscent of post 9/11 Islamophobia.
November 1. Shane Burley: How the far right is trying to manipulate the crisis in Gaza: White nationalists are attempting to hijack Israel’s escalating war to draw new recruits and push their antisemitic and Islamophobic narratives.
November 1. Arun Kundnani: Islamophobia in the US is rooted in its unconditional support for Israel.
November 1. AP News: The White House is working on a strategy to combat Islamophobia. Many Muslim Americans are skeptical.
November 4. Faris Tanyos: Hit-and-run which injured Stanford Arab-Muslim student investigated as possible hate crime.
November 4. Olivia Seaman and Dea Hoxha: Flyer of Hamas Hostage Placed Outside Muslim Prayer Room Under Review By St. John’s University.
November 5. CNN: Muslim student struck in Stanford hit-and-run calls for love, compassion, from hospital bed.
November 6. USA Today: Jewish and Muslim organizations denounce attacks against college students: ‘Feel increasingly vulnerable and targeted’.
November 8. Lajward Zahra: Palestinian Americans worry anti-Gaza rhetoric will turn into Islamophobic legislation: Palestinians across the U.S. are speaking out about what it’s like living in the U.S. right now and seeing their country seemingly turn against them.
November 9. CNN: CAIR received an ‘unprecedented’ 1,283 reports of anti-Arab and Islamophobic bias in the last month.
November 16. Tess Owen: Racist Premium X Users Exploiting Israel-Hamas War to Push Antisemitism, Islamophobia.
November 26. Hannah Allam & Abigail Hauslohner: Three Palestinian American students injured after Vermont shooting: Police, who are still searching for the suspect, are investigating the incident as a potential hate crime.
December 1. Odette Yousef: For years, the FBI quietly stopped tracking anti-Arab violence and hate crimes.
2024
February 7. Rowaida Abdelaziz: Palestinian American Man Stabbed After Attending Protest.
February 16. Jennifer Bendery: ‘Disgusting’: Dark Money Group Unveils Wildly Islamophobic Ads Against Biden Court Pick.
March 11. Sheikh Saaliq: India announces steps to implement a citizenship law that excludes Muslims.
March 15. Rowaida Abdelaziz: They Desperately Wanted To Build A Muslim Cemetery. Then Came The Backlash. Muslim American communities still face resistance when trying to find places to bury their loved ones.
March 31. Hannah Allam: How the FBI’s visit to a Muslim woman became a right-wing rallying cry: A viral video of FBI agents looking into pro-Palestinian Facebook posts reflects the muddled politics and social media swirl of 2024.
April 2. Rowaida Abdelaziz: Anti-Muslim Incidents In U.S. Break Records: The CAIR report points to the war in Gaza as the primary driver behind the dramatic increase in anti-Muslim sentiment.
April 10. Eyewitness News: Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University vandalized during Eid al-Fitr.
May 8. Christopher Mathias & Matt Shuham: Cousin Of Extremist Rabbi Charged With Driving Car Into Pro-Palestinian Protesters.
September 17. Robert McCoy: GOP Senator Goes Full Racist in Attack on Arab American Witness: Republican Senator John Neely Kennedy accused an Arab American activist of being a member of Hamas, in an incredibly racist tangent during a congressional hearing.
October 18. Jason Koebler: This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages.
Selected Articles about Islamophobia
Hamed Aleaziz: Asylum seekers from Muslim-majority countries disproportionately imprisoned at Texas border.
Todd H. Green: See collected interviews with Todd H. Green here.
Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan: Trump Wanted to Hire Laura Loomer, Anti-Muslim Activist: The former president’s aides feared that hiring Ms. Loomer, who has a long history of bigoted remarks, would set off a backlash. That proved to be correct.
Islamic Networks Group: Islamophobia’s Key Role in White Christian Nationalism.
Deepa Kumar:
- We Can’t Understand Islamophobia Without Recognizing Its Roots in Imperialism.
- The Roots of Islamophobia.
- Afghan Women Betrayed: The Legacy of Imperial Feminism.
- Oppression of Women Isn’t Just for the Taliban — It’s Homegrown in the US: Using Taliban imagery to decry the Texas abortion ban is an old colonial move that reeks of Islamophobia.
- See more by Deepa Kumar here.
Arun Kundnani:
- The west’s Islamophobia is only helping the Islamic State.
- The belief system of the Islamophobes.
- Islamophobia is just the latest in a history of US imperialism.
- Stop spying on Muslim-Americans.
- See more by Arun Kundnani here.
Mack Lamoureux: Man Who Killed Muslim Family Bragged to Police He Was a White Supremacist.
Nathan Lean: Stop Saying “Moderate Muslims.” You’re Only Empowering Islamophobes.
Danny Lucia & Deepa Kumar: Islamophobes in Blue.
The Washington Post: Biden reverses Trump’s ‘Muslim ban.’ Americans support the decision. In 2017, rallies and protests persuaded a big proportion of citizens that the ban was ‘un-American’.
Islamophobia Around the World
Follow global news about Islamophobia here at Aljazeera.