The wearing of the Islamic hijab or headscarf set off 346 bias incidents in 2016, representing the second most common trigger for anti-Muslim bias incidents after ethnicity and national origin, according to the report. Army veteran of the Iraq War discovered his restroom locker vandalized with the words "terrorist" and "raghead." In another episode, a Muslim-owned restaurant in Galveston, Texas, was vandalized with bacon twice in one week.Īnd in a case of harassment, a disabled U.S. In one widely reported incident, federal authorities charged three members of a white militia group last year with conspiring to blow up an apartment complex where Somali immigrants lived and worshipped. The Tarbiya Institute was spray-painted with a dozen obscene and racist slurs. The CAIR report, The Empowerment of Hate, includes a panoply of highly publicized hate crimes and lesser known bias incidents phoned into the organization's chapters around the country.įILE - Graffiti are cleaned off the side of a mosque after what officials called the commission of a hate crime, Feb. "Our focus is not on membership in particular groups but on criminal activity." "The FBI investigates activity which may constitute a federal crime or pose a threat to national security," FBI spokesman Matthew Bertron said. The FBI dismissed the suggestion that it targeted Muslims. "We did not see any similar type of outreach to, say, Trump supporters who were documented as making a number of threats." They were asked "questions that in the assessment of our intake staff were not connected to any specific investigation," he said at a news conference. Saylor said that shortly before the November 8 election, an unusually large number of Muslim Americans reported being visited by FBI agents and asked about a vague terror plot. While hate crimes made up 12 percent of all anti-Muslim bias incidents in 2016, harassment was the most common category, accounting for 18 percent of cases, followed closely by incidents during which Muslims were "questioned by FBI employees or otherwise appeared to be inappropriately targeted by the agency." The contempt used to be directed at blocking mosque constructions, but "unfortunately, nowadays people are going out and targeting Muslims for assault, vandalizing or attempting arsons on mosques," Saylor said. That's nearly a 70 percent increase for the three-year period.Ĭorey Saylor, a CAIR spokesman and co-author of the report, said his findings underlined the increasingly violent face of anti-Muslim bias in the United States. Overall anti-Muslim bias cases - identified as any incident in which there was an element of religious bias, such as a slur - reached 2,213 in 2016, up from 1,409 in 2015 and 1,314 in 2014.
In a report released Tuesday, the Council on American Islamic Relations said there were 260 anti-Muslim hate crimes in 2016, up from 180 in 2015 and 38 in 2014, a 584 percent increase for the three-year period. presidential election, according to a Muslim advocacy group. Hate crimes targeting Muslim Americans were up nearly 600 percent from 2014 to 2016, fueled in part by anti-Islam rhetoric during the 2016 U.S.
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