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Islamophobia has become the official policy which enabled the current government to garner support and execute xenophobic policies putting into place a Muslim travel ban. For this reason Islamophobia has become the norm in civil society, and does not just affect Muslims- it foreshadows future civil rights violations for other minorities; condoning a course of action that threatens the very foundation of the U.S.
Islamophobia has painted a perilous picture regarding Islam and Muslims as a threat, while distracting from the real political, social, economic and racial issues facing America. While politicians mobilize to address "creeping shariah", African Americans are being killed, economic disparities widen, and climate change is upon us.
Anti-Muslim bigotry has made it possible for the re-emergence of overt racism in America, across many parts of Europe, and in many countries of the Muslim world. Never before has open critique of any religion been as acceptable as it is today for Islam. Today the American-right, the European-left, and the media demonize Islam without repercussion; they form laws to regulate the bodies and space of Muslim communities around the globe and have constituted an environment in which it is impossible for Muslims to be equal and accorded civil and human rights.Islamophobia has left the Muslim community vulnerable and facing grave danger. Racist rhetoric has already translated into violent and deadly incidents across the country, with further armed threats directed at Muslim institutions now almost a daily occurrence.
We need a more sustained response that both examines the roots of Islamophobia, and provides the empirical data to quantify the problem. Only then can we develop the tools required to educate policymakers on how best to counter Islamophobia.
The Islamophobia Studies Center (ISC) needs your help this Ramadan to further its mission of combating islamophobia through education and building communities for social justice.
The ISC is dedicated to forming a global academic network that produces research on islamophobia and its effect on the Muslim community. The network comprises academics, thinkers, practitioners and researchers from around the globe who engage, question and challenge the existing disparities in economic, political, social and cultural relations.
The ISC is an educational not-for-profit research project dedicated to countering the presence of Islamophobia in society through the use of applied research, publications, social media campaigns, workshops, conferences, and media engagement.
Why academic research?
Just like protesting and rallying have their place in forming responses to social injustice, you can think of academia as the first step in defining the problem and providing the needed to data to counter racism and discrimination. The research establishes the reality of a given situation, allowing community and policy makers to counter the prevailing negative stereotypical attitudes within the public consciousness. Only after this are policy-makers influenced and real change begins. While other forms of activism deal with addressing and fixing the symptoms of Islamophobia, our research is the first step in dealing with getting to the root and influencing policies to solve the problem.
The ISC is one of few networks in the world that is structurally responding to the crisis that is Islamophobia.
The challenge for understanding the current cultural and political period centers on providing a more workable and encompassing definition for the Islamophobia phenomenon, a theoretical framework to anchor future research, and a centralized mechanism to document and analyze diverse data sets from around the U.S. and in comparison with other areas around the world.
Currently the ISC is run by limited staff and volunteers. Our hope is to generate more funding to hire more people into the work. Funding is needed to manage the newly founded International Consortium for Islamophobia Studies, publish the Islamophobia Studies Journal, continue to organize conferences, hold summer institutes-training workshops, and deploy a robust social media campaign. The ISC's work helps engage academic institutions and policy makers on the basis of sound research.
Over the past year the funding from the community has allowed the ISC to:
1. Develop the Islamophobia Reporting phone app to document incidents around the country and develop the needed data.
2. Revamp the website that defines and contextualizes Islamophobia, shares research findings, and connects scholars to one another.
3. Work to recruit and engage more faculty and graduate students from across the world.
4. Organize 8 different conferences around the world and helped provide funding for facilities, logistics and travel arrangements for scholars from all over the globe for conferences in India, Germany, Sweden, Paris, Bosnia, Norway, London, and California.
5. Partner with Pluto Publishing for the publication of the bi-annual Islamophobia Journal. The only academic peer-reviewed academic journal on Islamophobia in the world.
6. Develop video production to frame the problem of Islamophobia and for over-all marketing as well as conference documentation. Your donations have allowed ISC to develop advertising for marketing materials used to create awareness for events and research.
7. Oversee the beginning of a medical initiative in the California Bay Area that hopes to develop a public health response to Islamophobia. It includes a public health/medical research group that aims to issue a report that will identify health issues arising from Islamophobia, recommend how to address it and form a quick clinical guide to be used by health providers. The hope is to create a multi-campus and multi-agency project that can carry the imprint of Berkeley, Stanford, SFSU, UCSF, and SFDPH.
8. Develop a Summer Islamophobia Studies Institute that helps build the academic field and expand the range of research projects undertaken.
9. Develop and set-up the research infrastructure for the International Consortium for Islamophobia Studies.
The ISC's projects that are under development/in progress and in need of continued funding for the next year include:
Forging an academic area of specialization in the Islamophobia field of studies is key to begin to document and challenge the "otherization" of Muslims in civil society. Data and applied research is directly connected to policy formation and the Center is dedicated to making a qualitative difference in the work being done at an academic and community levels.
Islamophobia is all around us and it effects all Muslims everywhere and also carries indications for the abuse of non-Muslims and minorities vulnerable in the future. We deserve justice and fairness. This can only happen if we mount a sustained response to dismantle the current strategy at work. Please join us and kindly donate and help our center carry out its mission. Thank you.
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Dear Donor,
Eid Mubarak to each and everyone of you and all your loved ones. May Allah accept all your fasting, prayers, Duaa and grant you the highest reward for all your good deeds. Our campaign is in the final 36 hours and we are very close to the funding goal. We would greatly appreciate If you are able to share the campaign with your lists one more time.
On a side not, our Islamophobia Summer Institute in Paris, France still has few spots available and you can apply for the program online at: https://irdproject.com/2017paris/
France has been the focal point for many of the most oppressive policies related to Muslim women and men in civil society and it is often used as a model to follow.
All the best,
Dr. Hatem Bazian
Director, Islamophobia Studies Center
Editor-in-Chief, Islamophobia Studies Journal
Thank you from ISC!
Salaams from ISC,
We would first like to take a moment to thank you for your contribution to the Islamophobia Studies Center. Director Dr. Hatem Bazian would like to thank you for your donation towards our fundraising efforts. We have completed 78% of our total goal for this Ramadan and still have 20 days to go.
Apart from expressing our gratitude, we would like to assure you that we will certainly benefit from your help in these dire times. We hope to raise enough funds for another year, and this seems to be within our grasp all thanks to community members like yourself, so your contribution will have a major impact on our work moving forward. May Allah (SWT) make our project a lucrative endeavor as if He wishes, and may we always work for His pleasure.
We also ask at this time if you could please share our campaign on your social media networks like FaceBook. The link is:
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Remember as is told to us through our Hadith, the one who directs someone to a good deed, they are rewarded as if they themselves have done it:
"Abu Mas’ud reported: A man came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and he said, “My animal has died, so help me.” The Prophet said, “I do not have anything.” Another man said, “O Messenger of Allah, I can show him someone who can help him.” The Prophet said, “Whoever guides someone to goodness will have a similar reward.
Source: Sahih Muslim 1893"
Peace & blessings.
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Giving is better together! Your share could raise over $77.
https://www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/islamophobia_studies_center_isc_ramadan_campaign
“Whoever guides someone to goodness will have a reward like the one who did it.”
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ