Center for the Study of Organized Hate

08/27/2026

Anti-hate and anti-discriminatory speech frameworks are disproportionately enforced against the very communities they claim to protect, in part because they are so easily distorted by state entities that co-opt victimhood in order to shield their oppression.

“Hate” is a political project, and until we recognize it as such, we will be unable to keep communities safe from the violence it fuels. If we don’t embed a power analysis into our hate speech frameworks, the next decade of online regulation won’t curb incitement against marginalized communities—it will simply criminalize resistance to authoritarianism, writes Sanaa Ansari Khan, Director of Advocacy at Muslim Counterpublics Lab

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Hate is a political project. Without understanding the power behind it, efforts to regulate hate speech risk suppressing dissent while leaving supremacist violence intact.

08/25/2026

Tomorrow at 9 AM EDT. A timely conversation on where Afghanistan and Afghan communities stand five years after the US withdrawal and what is needed now.

Register here: https://www.csohate.org/event/afghans-between-repression-displacement-and-hostility/

Five years after the US withdrawal, Afghans are confronting multiple, overlapping crises including repression at home, displacement across borders, and growing anti-Afghan hostility abroad.

On August 26, CSOH brings together Afghan journalists, researchers, and advocates for an important conversation on what has changed since 2021 and the responses needed to better protect Afghan communities globally.

Registration details: https://www.csohate.org/event/afghans-between-repression-displacement-and-hostility/

08/25/2026

🙅🏽‍♀️ Are we truly protecting children online if we don’t confront the systems that profit off of their harm?

🗣️ “The isolation [that our younger generation is facing] did not appear from nowhere. It is produced by the same economic order that hollowed out public education. Capitalism offered this generation debt and precarity amidst a global ecological collapse instead of a future. [Capitalism] has nothing to give an alienated teenager except the attention economy's promise of so-called belongingness. The platforms did not create that vacuum, but they found it, and they monetised it… 𝙏𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙢𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙞𝙩,” says Jean Linis-Dinco, Manushya Foundation's Digital Rights Adviser, speaking at the webinar Rethinking Child Safety Online in Southeast Asia, hosted by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate.

Jean challenged the panel to look past age-gating and identity verification as the default answer to child safety online. She argued that these measures leave the ownership structures and profit models that drive harm completely untouched. Radicalisation and exploitation are symptoms of an attention economy that monetises isolation and grievance, and that no age gate closes that vacuum.

✊ We at Manushya Foundation have been raising the bells on age gating ever since it became a mainstream debate topic, arguing that even a hedge position that tries to ‘strike a balance’ on age-gating will always favour those with money and power. Our stance is a no. And that ‘no’ is not a ‘not yet’.

“Southeast Asia does not need another generation of working class children locked out of the one space where they still find each other, whilst the platforms that profited from their exploitation keep the profit and hand the state a population to discipline in their place.” 🌏

Jean was joined by Anita Wahid of AICHR Indonesia and Suyin Chia of INITIATE.MY (Initiative to Promote Tolerance and Prevent Violence).

♾️ Equal Human Beings

08/22/2026

Our Executive Director, Raqib Naik, spoke with The Guardian about the unprecedented wave of anti-Muslim bigotry in the United States: “What we are seeing right now is a very organized and coordinated campaign to generate fear and hysteria about Muslims for electoral gain, to justify domestic policies, and build support for foreign wars. The idea that Muslims are coming to ‘take over’ America is more mainstream. It is a continuation of post-9/11 Islamophobia, but in many ways, it has become uglier and more blatant. What is particularly worrying is that bigotry once largely confined to fringe anti-Muslim groups is now being repeated and amplified from the highest office in the country, by elected officials, billionaires and major political influencers,” Naik told The Gaurdian

Latest attack happened amid Islamophobic blowback against Arab and Muslim Americans running for office

08/22/2026

Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco, Digital Rights Adviser at Manushya Foundation, explains why age assurance, parental controls, and access restrictions alone cannot address online harms to children when addictive recommender systems and business models built on extracting users’ time and data remain unchanged.

08/20/2026

Recent anti-Muslim violence across Nepal’s Terai region has brought renewed attention to the country’s growing religious polarization.

Our latest analysis examines the role of Hindu nationalist groups, the cross-border influence of India’s Hindutva movement, and the growing risks facing Nepal’s Muslim minority.

More: https://www.csohate.org/2026/08/19/nepal-violence-hindu-nationalism/

Anti-Muslim violence in Nepal’s Terai reveals growing religious polarization and the cross-border influence of India’s Hindu nationalist movement.

08/16/2026

Anti-Muslim hate targeting Abdul El-Sayed increased 20-fold following his win in Michigan’s Democratic Primary Election for U.S. Senate.

Our research featured on Connect with Jacob Soboroff on MS NOW

Watch: https://youtu.be/tWO7xD9y8iU?is=lJUxDdnKqsNv9PYT

08/14/2026

CSOH Executive Director Raqib Naik spoke with The Canadian Press about the Dominion Society’s upcoming conference, its advocacy for “remigration,” and the transnational far-right networks connecting Canada with movements in Europe.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/martin-sellner-hamilton-banned-9.7305787

08/14/2026

Five years after the US withdrawal, Afghans are confronting multiple, overlapping crises including repression at home, displacement across borders, and growing anti-Afghan hostility abroad.

On August 26, CSOH brings together Afghan journalists, researchers, and advocates for an important conversation on what has changed since 2021 and the responses needed to better protect Afghan communities globally.

Registration details: https://www.csohate.org/event/afghans-between-repression-displacement-and-hostility/

08/12/2026

Anti-Muslim bigotry in the US has continued to intensify through 2026, building on a pattern of escalating hate and conspiracy theories over the past year.

Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary on August 4 triggered the summer’s most concentrated wave. In the seven days that followed, posts targeting El-Sayed with anti-Muslim hate and conspiracy theories surged 20-fold, while overall anti-Muslim posting on X reached its highest single-day level since June 1.

Read more: https://www.csohate.org/2026/08/12/abdul-el-sayed-islamophobia/

Abdul El-Sayed's victory in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary on August 4 triggered the summer's most concentrated wave of anti-Muslim hate.