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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