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Nathan Lean is the Editor-in-Chief of Aslan Media and a contributing writer at Policy Mic. He is the co-author of Iran, Israel, and the United States (2010) and the author of The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims (2012). A native of North Carolina, he currently lives with his wife in Washington, D.C.

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Crowdfunding Hate: Indiegogo Profits From Anti-Muslim Campaign

(30) Comments | Posted April 15, 2013 | 12:33 PM

Indiegogo may sound like the name of a 1970s funk band, but it's actually one of the fastest growing crowd-funding sites on the Internet. Founded in 2002 by a former Wall Street analyst, the funding platform allows inspired individuals to grow projects or personal campaigns by pooling money from donors....

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Wall Street Journal Denies Existence of Islamophobia

(0) Comments | Posted January 14, 2013 | 10:24 AM

Unless you've been asleep for the past 10 years (or write book reviews for the Wall Street Journal), you may have noticed that anti-Muslim sentiment in the past decade has recently spilled out into some of this country's nastiest displays of hate.

In August, a Sikh temple...

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11 Lies The Right Spreads About Muslims

(400) Comments | Posted September 17, 2012 | 1:56 PM

Nathan Lean is the author of The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims (Pluto Press, $17.00)

Muslims are everywhere. They're hiding out in schools, churches, and Washington's halls of power (not to mention in our closets and beneath our beds), waiting for the next opportunity...

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Yes, Virginia, Islamophobia Is Racism

(136) Comments | Posted August 3, 2012 | 2:00 PM

Back in 2007, before Mitt Romney's dreams for clinching the 2008 GOP presidential nomination sputtered to a dismal end, he spoke to The Christian Science Monitor about the makeup of his hypothetical cabinet. "Based on the numbers of African Americans [as a percentage] in our population, I cannot...

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Monster Mosques and Muslim Madness

(182) Comments | Posted June 19, 2012 | 11:49 AM

At 41,000 square feet, the recently completed Old Apostolic Lutheran worship center in Woodland, Wash., surely classifies as a "mega church." The two-story edifice includes two lobbies, a large sanctuary, two multipurpose rooms, an extensive nursery, a massive dining hall, and lower level and balcony seating. Its congregation has swelled...

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The Islamophobia Industry Strikes in Kansas

(377) Comments | Posted June 1, 2012 | 3:21 PM

Just like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, Republican Governor Sam Brownback had a feeling he was not in Kansas anymore. At least not the Kansas that he once knew. His Sunflower State was teeming with unfamiliar creatures and though not tin-men or scarecrows or wicked witches, they were nonetheless...

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