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Council on American-Islamic Relations and University of California Berkeley report names 74 groups they say contributed to Islamophobia in the US.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>, 20 June 2016<\/p>\n

\"cair\"<\/a>Inciting hate toward American Muslims and Islam<\/a> has become a multimillion-dollar business, according to a report released on Monday.\u00a0Released by the Council on American-Islamic Relations<\/a> (Cair) and University of California Berkeley\u2019s Center for Race and Gender<\/a>, the report names 74 groups it says contribute in some way to Islamophobia in the US. Of those groups, it says, the primary purpose of 33 \u201cis to promote prejudice against, or hatred of, Islam and Muslims\u201d.<\/p>\n

The core group, which includes the Abstraction Fund<\/a>, Clarion Project<\/a>, David Horowitz Freedom Center<\/a>, Middle East Forum<\/a>, American Freedom Law Center<\/a>,Center for Security Policy<\/a>, Investigative Project on Terrorism<\/a>, Jihad Watch<\/a> andAct! for America<\/a>, had access to almost $206m of funding between 2008 and 2013, the report said.<\/p>\n

Corey Saylor<\/a>, author of the report and director of Cair\u2019s department to monitor and combat Islamophobia, said:\u00a0\u201cThe hate that these groups are funding and inciting is having real consequences like attacks on mosques all over the country and new laws discriminating against Muslims in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saylor added that the Washington-based Center for Security Policy and Act! for America have the most impact, because they are trying to push their anti-Muslim rhetoric beyond their formerly fringe following.<\/p>\n

Two groups on the list, the Center for Security Policy<\/a> and the David Horowitz Freedom Center<\/a>, have given awards of recognition to Jeff Sessions, a US senator from Alabama who chairs Trump\u2019s national security advisory committee and is a possible vice-presidential pick.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the headline on the David Horowitz Freedom Center website<\/a> was \u201cMuslim privilege killed 49 people in Orlando\u201d, a reference to the mass shooting on 12 June in an Orlando LGBT nightclub by Omar Mateen<\/a>, a Muslim American from Port St Lucie, Florida.<\/p>\n

Two other Trump foreign policy advisers have ties to groups named in the Cair-UCB report. The Center for Security Policy lists Joseph Schmitz<\/a> as a senior fellow<\/a>; Walid Phares<\/a>reportedly<\/a> served on the board of Act! for America.<\/p>\n

The Guardian contacted Brigitte Gabriel<\/a>, the founder of Act! for America, and the Center for Security Policy, which is led by Frank Gaffney, who advised Ted Cruz<\/a> on national security during the Texas senator\u2019s presidential campaign. Neither group responded immediately.<\/p>\n

The Trump campaign and Sessions\u2019 Senate office also did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

\"maxresdefault\"<\/a>Act! for America Education runs the Thin Blue Line Project<\/a>, a password-protected database of information about Muslim communities in the US. According to the group\u2019s website, the project \u201cprovides educational and informational content about issues relating to national security and terrorism and how the call to Jihad is accelerating homegrown terrorism\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a 2 June article<\/a>, Stephen Piggott of the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote that the Thin Blue Line Project\u2019s key component is a \u201cRadicalization Map Locator \u2026 which lists the addresses of every Muslim Student Association (MSA) in the country as well as a number of mosques and Islamic institutions \u2013 all listed as suspected national security concerns\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Cair-UCB report also tracks anti-Islam bills, which it says have become law in 10 states, and 78 recorded incidents in 2015 in which mosques were targeted. Saylor said this was the highest yearly number of attacks on mosques since Cair started tracking in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Corey Saylor, author of the report and director of Cair\u2019s department to monitor and combat Islamophobia, said:\u00a0\u201cThe hate that these groups are funding and inciting is having real consequences like attacks on mosques all over the country and new laws discriminating against Muslims in America.\u201d Saylor added that the Washington-based Center for Security Policy …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[403,196,188,404,298],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share-en","tag-funding-islamophobia","tag-islamophobia","tag-racism","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"yoast_head":"\nFunding Islamophobia - Twist Islamophobia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/en\/2016\/06\/23\/funding-islamophobia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Funding Islamophobia - Twist Islamophobia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Council on American-Islamic Relations and University of California Berkeley report names 74 groups they say contributed to Islamophobia in the US. 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