In one year, anti-Muslim hate crimes in the United States rose 67%, from 154 incidents in 2014 to 257 in 2015, according to the latest numbers released in the bureau's Hate Crime Statistics report on Monday.
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“They started yelling at me and telling me to take off the disgusting piece of cloth on my head, saying it wasn’t allowed anymore,”Nizam wrote on Facebook. “I was crying incessantly, looking away, but they did not stop.”
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According to the most recent list of NYC polling places, there was not a single mosque, Muslim school, or Islamic cultural center that was being used as a polling site in any of the five boroughs in this weeks election.
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At this tenuous moment, when so many of us are recovering from the shock of Tuesday’s election, we wish to express our sincerest gratitude for the outpouring of support for the Muslim American community. Words cannot fully capture what your calls and emails have meant to us. Your assistance will be indispensable in the days and months ahead, but for right now, your solidarity gives us the strength to carry on with our mission: protecting and defending the rights of Muslim New Yorkers.
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Donald Trump won the American Presidency by openly advocating discriminatory policies that target Muslims and communities of color. This is a heartbreaking occasion for many, but we at CAIR-NY don't have time to mourn.
Read More“There were a few racist incidents that I experienced during the marathon,” he said. “The first was a woman who refused to serve me water at the volunteer station and she called me a dirty Muslim.”
Singh who is not Muslim but of the Sikh faith, continued on with his run but then it happened again.
The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations, an umbrella group of two dozen Muslim advocacy organizations, said its yearlong “One Million Voters” campaign had surpassed its target, more than doubling the number of registered Muslim voters in America since the 2012 presidential election.
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