RESOURCES ON ISLAMOPHOBIA

Reports on Organized Islamophobia

• Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley, “Legalizing Othering: The United States of Islamophobia,” a report on anti-shari’a legislation.
• Institute for Social Policy and Understanding report: “Islamophobia: A Threat To All”(2015)
• “Mapping Muslims: NYPD Spying and Its Impact on American Muslims,” prepared by the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition, and its partner organizations the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) project at Main Street Legal Services, Inc. of the CUNY School of Law, and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF).
• People for the American Way report: “The Right-Wing Playbook on Anti-Muslim Extremism”

• Center for American Progress reports:
  

• “Fear Inc., The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America”
• “Fear, Inc. 2.0: The Islamophobia Network’s Efforts to Manufacture Hate in America” (2015)
  

• The Independent: news archive on islamophobia
• Southern Poverty Law Center reports: Robert Steinback: “Jihad against Islam” and “The Anti-Muslim Inner Circle”“Manufacturing the Muslim Menace: Private Firms, Public Servants,and the Threat to Rights and Security,” by Thomas Cincotta (Political Research Associates). On dangers to national security posed by ideological anti-terrorism training programs based on conspiracy theories.Bob Smietana, “Anti-Muslim crusaders make millions spreading fear,” Tennessean, Oct. 24, 2010
  

  
  Other Essays

• Glenn Greenwald, “Sam Harris, the New Atheists, and anti-Muslim Animus”(2013)
• Bruce Lawrence, “The Polite Islamophobia of the Intellectual,” from Religion Dispatches, on Paul Berman
  
• Michael A. Sells, “Breivik, Trifkovic, and Bat Ye’or, Part I”, on the Serbian anti-Islamic background to the murderous thought of Anders Breivik
  
• Shalom Goldman, “Evangelical Islamophobia As American As Apple Pie,” from Religion Dispatches
  
• Haroon Moghul, “Who Gets Paid to Make America Hate? The Roots of the Islamophobia Network,” from Religion Dispatches
  
• Pankaj Mishra, “A Critic at Large: Islamismism – How should Western intellectuals respond to Muslim scholars?”, The New Yorker, June 7, 2010 (on Ayan Hirsi Ali, Paul Berman, et al.)
  

Muslim Rejection of Terrorism, and Muslim Advocacy of Peace

2015 Columbia University conference on “Islam & world peace: Perspectives from African Muslim Nonviolence Traditions”, focusing on Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba and the Mourides of SenegalFrom Indonesia, a Muslim Challenge to the Ideology of the Islamic State” NY Times, Nov. 27, 2015, on the world’s largest Muslim organization (50 million members) and its rejection of Daesh