MONITORING AND COMBATING ISLAMOPHOBIA

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ISLAMOPHOBIC INDIVIDUALS: Mano Bakh

Mano Bakh

Mano Bakh is part of Concerned American Citizens. On November 15, 2010, the Press-Enterprise published a portrait of Bakh noting that he was forced to flee Iran shortly after that country’s 1979 revolution. Bakh asserts he was subject to human rights abuses prior to his flight. According to the article’s author, Bakh believes “an expansionist Islamic ideology supports terrorism and seeks to repress liberty through religious-based Shariah law.”

Moorthy Muthuswamy

Moorthy Muthuswamy is an Indian-American anti-Muslim extremist who has promoted Islamophobic rhetoric and policies of the BJP and the RSS, two far-right political organizations in India.  In

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Marjorie Taylor Greene

Who is Marjorie Taylor Greene?  Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) is an anti-Muslim, antisemitic, and far-right conspiracy theorist who serves as the U.S. representative for Georgia’s

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Pat Robertson

Robertson is a commentator for Christian Broadcasting Network and the co-founder of American Center for Law and Justice. He is a media executive and Baptist

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Phyllis Schlafly

Phyliss Schlafly is the founder and president of The Eagle Forum, and worries about Muslim immigrants “bringing in a bunch of wives who will now

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Tom Trento

Tom Trento is the founder and director of United West. Trento’s biography on the United West website identifies him as “one of the leading academic

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Bill Maher

Bill Maher is a commentator and comedian who hosts the political satire talk show Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO. Maher stirred controversy on

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Steven Emerson

Steven Emerseon is the founder of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. The New York Times Book Review said Emerson’s 1991 book Terrorist was “marred by

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Shalom Lewis

Rabbi Shalom Lewis is a cleric at the Congregation Etz Chaim synagogue in Marietta, Georgia. Etz Chaim’s website states Lewis “generates a caring warmth”, but

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