I want to reach out to my Muslim neighbor. How do I get started?

So maybe your neighbor is Muslim, or you’ve run into the parents of your child’s classmate and they’re Muslim. You’d like to get together with them but aren’t sure how to do it. Check out this guide for tips on how to start a conversation.

Ramadan Resources

Check out our Ramadan Resource Page for our video series, dialogue guides, and tips for your first or 100th interfaith iftar.

Allyship Through Civic Action

This digital, clickable guide to Allyship through Civic Action offers models of civic action that can build community resilience in the fight against anti-Muslim bigotry. Let us know how we can improve this resource. Use it, share it, and tell us about how you live out these ideals. America Indivisible and the Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign are both coalition efforts, and we are together in this cause.

This Spring 2023 guide outlines topline messaging suggestions, tips for writing your own opinion piece, and for getting it placed in your local news outlets. This guide can also be used to shape newsletters, blogs, and public speeches and sermons.

Why now? We are living in an era where our nation is sharply polarized and divided along racial, religious, and political lines, and where disinformation and malinformation are used as mobilizing tools for spreading fear and hate. As we anticipate yet another heated election cycle, we need strong shared messaging and proactive leadership to guide us through.

Guide to addressing the Anti-Sharia Movement in the United States

This guide is meant to help people from faith communities who are interested in pushing back against this particular manifestation of Islamophobia.

In the last decade, a number of individuals, organizations and political actors have taken it upon themselves to push for banning Sharia from the United States. Beyond rhetoric, we have seen a number of states considering or passing anti-foreign law bills. This trend morphed from previous attempts to pass anti-Sharia legislation, because targeting a particular religion is unconstitutional (determined by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2012). However, these anti-foreign law bills are clearly targeted at Muslim communities and are, as many state, “a solution in search of a problem.”

We created this growing list of movies and books for anyone who is working to build more inclusive communities. Each of these movies and books has their own theory of change, audience, and message, so we trust community leaders to evaluate which films and books connect with their community. Movies and books are listed alphabetically. This is a living document that may be updated from time to time with new resources. Know that our Shoulder to Shoulder team is here to support and encourage you in the work. If there is something specific you’re looking for but don’t find here or you’re looking for a thought partner, please reach out to us at info@s2scampaign.org

COUNTERING AND DISMANTLING ISLAMOPHOBIA

A Comprehensive Guide for Individuals and Organizations

This document is for individuals and organizations alike. Laypeople such as concerned citizens, parents, neighbors, and members of religious congregations will find tools here that empower them to challenge Islamophobia in their homes, neighborhoods, and communities. Educators; political, civic, religious or business community leaders; civic organizations; and any entity looking for guidance to fight bigotry in their ranks, organization, or wider communities can follow actionable items in this guidebook to help them dismantle Islamophobia.  

This toolkit is a joint effort published by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, America Indivisible, Western States Center, and Shoulder to Shoulder. We would like to acknowledge our generous supporters whose contributions made this report possible, including DBEK Fund of the Common Counsel Foundation and Open Society Foundation.

Shoulder to Shoulder created this growing list of resources for students, educators, administrators, and all who aim to build more inclusive classrooms, campuses, and communities. This is a living document that may be updated from time to time with new resources. Know that our Shoulder to Shoulder team is here to support and encourage you in the work, however we’re able. If there is something specific you’re looking for but don’t find here or you’re looking for a thought partner, please reach out to us at info@s2scampaign.org

This document fulfills one of the more than 100 commitments made by the federal government in the first-ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, released in May 2023. In the strategy, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships—in cooperation with federal agency Centers for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and diverse faith leaders—pledged to produce a toolkit for faith communities on standing in solidarity to counter antisemitism and other forms of hate, including anti-Muslim discrimination and violence.

The Community and Congregational Network Resource Roundup is a selection of public resources and events shared by network members and our various partners and friends. You can read current and past issues of our Resource Roundup on our Medium channel linked here. If you’re interested in learning more about our Shoulder to Shoulder Community Network, click here.

Click on this link for highlighted resources from our national member denominations and organizations. These link to specific statements, guides, videos, and other resources that address the opportunity of interfaith community building and addressing anti-Muslim discrimination and violence.

Let us know if there is anything missing or if you have any questions.