United Against Islamophobia

Resources Against Islamophobia

American Friends Service Committee: How to counter Islamophobia with social media

You can use social media to help change the narrative on Islamophobia. You have influence in your community and among your friends and family and now you are part of a network that is working to build more inclusive communities to end Islamophobia. Can you share your knowledge to engage your friends and build this movement?

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Center for American Progress: Islamophobia

The Center for American Progress has aggregated numerous articles about Islamophia. CAP is an independent, nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action. Our aim is not just to change the conversation, but to change the country. 

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Creating Cultural Competencies: ​Countering Anti-Muslim Racism in Schools

The unit focuses on six essential questions to guide student learning on anti-Muslim racism. The emphasis of these materials is on developing critical thinking skills, critical media literacies, and social activism are important for all students to learn. 

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Council on American-Islamic Relations: Islamophobia 101

Islamophobia is a fear, hatred, or prejudice toward Islam and Muslims that results in a pattern of discrimination and oppression. Islamophobia creates a distorted understanding of Islam and Muslims by transforming the global and historical faith tradition of Islam, along with the rich history of cultural and ethnic diversity of its adherents, into a set of stereotyped characteristics most often reducible to themes of violence, civilizational subversion, and fundamental otherness.

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Council on American-Islamic Relations: Still Suspect: The Impact of Structural Islamophobia

CAIR is committed to protecting the rights of American Muslims and empowering them to fight for justice for all people. We aspire to live in a nation in which all Americans have the right to freely practice their faith regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity. This report seeks to illustrate the impacts of severe structural and interpersonal Islamophobia in the United States. CAIR outlines four different sections to demonstrate this impact, and offers key recommendations moving forward.

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Educators 4 Social Change: Teaching about Islamophobia

Islamophobia is a form of racism that has grown worse over time, especially after Islamist terrorist attacks. Many of those who fear the religion or harm Muslims because of their beliefs don’t understand or try to understand Islam. In order for students to grow up and understand this concept, teachers should provide students with resources that encourage them to learn about Islam and accept Muslims, and others of different religious backgrounds, in society.

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Institute for Social Policy and Understanding: Countering and Dismantling Islamophobia

Structural Islamophobia is reflected in institutionalized anti-Muslim legislation and further perpetuated through dialectical Islamophobia via policing, bias in media representation and in the legal system, and the use of anti-Muslim rhetoric and statements by political candidates and elected or appointed officials. On a community level, the emergence of anti-Muslim hate groups, anti-Muslim rallies, organized and anti-mosque activity, including opposition to mosque construction or expansion, vandalism, and opposition to refugee resettlement, demonstrate Islamophobia.

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Learning for Justice: Countering Islamophobia

This lesson helps students explore, confront and deconstruct stereotypes targeted at Muslims. Students will learn about the impact of Islamophobia and create an anti-Islamophobia campaign to display in school.

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Rethinking Schools: Rethinking Islamophobia

A Muslim educator and curriculum developer questions whether religious literacy is an effective antidote to combat bigotries rooted in American history.

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The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee: Countering Islamophobia

Use these resources to take action and challenge discrimination against our Muslim friends and neighbors.