Moustafa Bayoumi, a professor at Brooklyn College, is a co-editor of The Edward Said Reader (Vintage) and the author of How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America (Penguin Press).
A new investigation by The Intercept reveals how racist anti-Muslim neocons are driving the nation’s law enforcement agenda.
The anti-Muslim hate that might have fueled the the Oak Creek murderer is more widespread than you think.
Let us realize that the best way to honor the loss of innocent life on one day is to remember taking of innocent life on all days.
On Tuesday, ten years after I got my green card and ten years into the war on terror, I became a citizen of the United States. Why I did it.
The NYPD compiled information on New York City mosques, ethnic restaurants, Muslim student associations. Ten years after 9/11, the national security state is alive and well.
A decade ago, there was near-universal acknowledgement that profiling was unethical and ineffective. Yet the practice continues.
But now that the supposed widespread radicalization of American Muslims is being paraded around as political truth, it’s important to respond.