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Farid Hafez

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Sep 16, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Farid Hafez

    Europe's most powerful party is stoking a Muslim scare (opens the original)

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    At its political assembly in Vienna at the end of June, Ursula von der Leyen's European People's Party (EPP) adopted a resolution that treats Muslim civic engagement as inherently suspect and collective religious practice as a threat. It extends the approach of Germany's Christian Democrats to "political Islam" and echoes French conspiracy theories about "Islamist entryism". The resolution attracted scant media attention, but the effects of this discourse have already been felt by anti-racist or

  2. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Farid Hafez

    UAE campaign used AI Claude to target Muslim Brotherhood and Sudan (opens the original)

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    Anthropic detected and disrupted a UAE-directed influence operation targeting the Muslim Brotherhood and the war in Sudan, the artificial intelligence (AI) company said in its September intelligence threat report. The US corporation said that a “single actor” used its AI assistant, Claude, to conduct a “coordinated transatlantic and regional operation to dismantle the Muslim Brotherhood globally”. This single actor also used the AI tool to build a campaign to influence perceptions of the United

  3. Article · Jul 23, 2026 · Farid Hafez

    UK mosques attacked once every five days in last year, amid rising Islamophobia (opens the original)

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    A mosque is attacked in the UK every five days, new figures have revealed, as Muslim leaders accuse the government of failing to respond with sufficient urgency to rising Islamophobia. The British Muslim Trust (BMT), the government’s partner for monitoring anti-Muslim hatred, recorded more than 70 attacks against mosques over the past year. The incidents included violence, intimidation, vandalism, property damage, harassment, hate speech and online abuse. London, Greater Manchester and the West

  4. Article · Jul 21, 2026 · Farid Hafez

    John Esposito taught the West to see Islam on its own terms (opens the original)

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    On 15 July, Jean Esposito informed our team at the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) at Georgetown University that her husband, John, had died. He was 86, and died in Philadelphia from complications following heart surgery. Born in Brooklyn in 1940, John Esposito was a scholar of Middle Eastern and religious studies, and distinguished university professor emeritus of religion and international affairs and of Islamic studies at Georgetown's Edmund A. Wals

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