According to new report, complaints filed after anti-Muslim incidents in USA tripled over V past several decades.
“For first time, and decline in A total number of cases, in particular 23% decline,” was noticed in CAIRO new Civil Rights Report, Research and Advocacy Coordinator at the Council on Ammar Ansari from the Department of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) told Anadolu Agency (AA).
“But although we see that this is encouraging, we need keep in Keep in mind that if we look at the data from 1995 to today, there are still three times more than the years since the September 11 attacks – the number of complaints we receive,” he said.
Ansari said that, according to the FBI, he hates crime reports published annually, “hate crimes in United States against Muslims rose sharply in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and are still trending upwards. in this country.”
Islamophobia is institutionalized, instrumentalized and internalized. in USA, he said. “Some of these examples in which we see Islamophobia institutionalized is the Patriot Act shortly after 9/11, CVE program the Obama administration, which persecuted almost exclusively Muslims through false Islamophobic views, as well as the Trump administration’s ban on Muslims.”
“Politicians and anti-Muslim activists use Islamophobia, think tanks and media advance the agenda. And the classic example we see is Trump saying things like Islam hates us in first days of his presidential campaign in 2015 like strategy divide the country and win presidency,” he said.
Ansari said that Muslims in The US is often referred to as Arabs or South Asians.
So the experience of Muslim from South Asia in America Versus Experience of A black Muslim, for e.g. while they both can face similar discrimination based on on religion, we should also recognize that their racial identity may expose them to various forms of systemic and interpersonal discrimination in US such as anti-black racism,” he said.
“But the result of this racization is that even non-Muslim communities become the target of Islamophobia. So first man killed in hatred crime after 9/11 there was a Punjabi Sikh, American Balbir Singh Sodhi, in Arizona, who was presented by the shooter as a man of Arab appearance,” he said. added.
