Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

You can paste full URL like: https://x.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649
or just the ID like: 1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on X (Twitter) App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
The Bridge Initiative Profile picture
The Bridge Initiative
@bridgeinit
A Georgetown University research project that extends information about Islamophobia to the public. RT ≠ endorsement. ❤ ≠ like. https://t.co/DW3GohLYNg
Aug 21 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Department of Homeland Security announced that it has suspended more than $8 million in grants to Muslim organizations it claims have "alleged terror ties" following a report from the Middle East Forum, a notorious anti-Muslim group.

buff.ly/THdWiDS Earlier this year, MEF boasted about its role in bringing Georgetown post-doc, Dr. Badar Khan Suri, to the attention of US authorities. Suri was illegally and unjustly detained by ICE for two months:

buff.ly/i2lEYmW
Nov 2, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Our new report on Islamophobia in India under PM Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government is out now.

Near daily episodes of harassment, public lynchings, and hate speech has resulted in a climate of fear for India’s 200 million Muslims.

bridge.georgetown.edu/wp-content/upl… Islamophobia goes hand in hand with militant Hindu nationalism. By their own words, Hindu nationalists' goals of making India a Hindu-only nation require the elimination, erasure, and/or forced expulsion of non-Hindus and non-Hindu markings in the country.
Feb 26, 2020 • 13 tweets • 18 min read
Reports are emerging of widespread anti-#Muslim violence in Delhi, India. Mosques have been set aflame, Muslim neighborhoods attacked, and Muslim cemeteries desecrated by Hindu-nationalist mobs.

Following is a thread of news and analysis as it breaks.

#DelhiRiots2020 When @thewire_in interviewed a pro-government #Hindutva group about the violence, they replied:

"How dare they protest like this in our country? Is it (their) country? It is our country. We will show them their place."

thewire.in/communalism/de…
Mar 16, 2018 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
1) The @StateDept has nominated Ken Isaacs to serve as director general of @UNmigration.

Isaacs has an extensive history of sharing anti-#Muslim sentiment on @Twitter, & has promoted the views of prominent anti-Muslim activists like Robert Spencer.

cnn.com/2018/03/15/pol… (2) In December, Isaacs RTed the following tweet from Robert Spencer. Spencer is the head of multiple anti-Muslim organizations, and claims that American Muslim organizations and mosques are front groups for terrorists.

imgur.com/a/QzN6E
Sep 14, 2017 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Our #ThursdayThoughts on #Islamophobia are about #Dawah. Read our thread & check our NEW factsheet on Dawah here: bridge.georgetown.edu/factsheet-dawa… Dawah is an Arabic term w/ a range of meanings generally understood to signify an invitation (definitions here: tinyurl.com/ybbsp24u)
Sep 13, 2017 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Today's #WednesdayWisdom: READ our thread on #Jihad based on our new factsheet. Read all Bridge's factsheets here: bridge.georgetown.edu/factsheets-wha… Jihad is an Arabic word meaning "struggle" or "thrive" often used to describe personal, spiritual efforts to follow God