Islamophobia watchdogs have identified more than 500 potentially anti-Muslim incidents in the US since the start of the year, and that\u2019s probably a low estimate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Islamophobia watchdogs have identified more than 500 potentially anti-Muslim incidents in the US since the start of the year, and that\u2019s probably a low estimate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the two months since a white supremacist murdered 51 worshippers in a New Zealand mosque, American Muslims have faced a series of high-profile threats. An arson at a California mosque was later linked to a white supremacist accused of opening fire in a murderous rampage at a synagogue. A New Haven, Connecticut, mosque suffered significant damages from an arson attack last Sunday. And on Thursday, a Queens, New York, man was indicted on hate crime charges for allegedly trashing a mosque during an anti-Muslim tirade.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s part of a troubling trend of hate that started surging in 2015, said Abbas Barzegar, national research and advocacy director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).\u00a0<\/p>\n
CAIR\u2019s chapters across the country track anti-Muslim bias incidents. Although their numbers are still tentative, the count is troubling.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve already reported over 500 incidences of anti-Muslim bias or harassment just this year so far,\u201d Barzegar told The Daily Beast. \u201cThat\u2019s very preliminary reporting. I know a number of our chapters have not filed their reports yet\u2026 I believe that\u2019s a very low estimate already of what\u2019s happening across the country.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anti-Muslim hate had a \u201cdemonstrable uptick\u201d in the 2015 election cycle, Barzegar added. Donald Trump\u2019s campaign, which arrived midway through that year, capitalized on the hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Islamophobia watchdogs have identified more than 500 potentially anti-Muslim incidents in the US since the start of the year, and that\u2019s probably a low estimate.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Islamophobia watchdogs have identified more than 500 potentially anti-Muslim incidents in the US since the start of the year, and that\u2019s probably a low estimate.\u00a0 In the two …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n