"Unprecedented surge" in anti-Arab, anti-Muslim bias incidents reported in U.S. since Israel-Hamas war, advocacy group says

CBS News ^ | NOVEMBER 9, 2023 | Emily Mae Czachor

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In the month since Hamas' attack on Israel sparked war in the Gaza Strip and worldwide protests, there has been an "unprecedented surge" in incidents of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias reported across the United States, according to a new report.

Data released Wednesday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which describes itself as the country's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, showed a tremendous upswing in complaints submitted between Oct. 7 — the day of the Hamas attack — and Nov. 4, exactly four weeks later. During that period of time, a total of 1,283 requests for help and reports of bias were submitted directly to CAIR, the organization said in a news release.

That number represents a 216% increase in such reports compared with the average number of monthly complaints the organization received last year. In 2022, CAIR received 406 requests for help and reports of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias, on average, each month. The organization said that complaints submitted to them since Oct. 7 have involved Americans of various ages and backgrounds, including public school students, college students, protesters, doctors and other workers. Some of the complaints have also involved bias targeting mosques in the U.S.

"Both Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism are out of control in ways we have not seen in almost ten years," Corey Saylor, the research and advocacy director at CAIR, said in a statement.

"The Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian rhetoric that have been used to both justify violence against Palestinians in Gaza and silence supporters of Palestinian human rights here in America has contributed to this unprecedented surge in bigotry," the statement continued, adding that "American Muslims are facing the largest wave of Islamophobic bias that we have documented since then-candidate Donald Trump's Muslim Ban announcement in December 2015."

The latest numbers from CAIR illustrate a drastic reversal from the dip in anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment reported not long before the start of the most recent Israel-Hamas war. CAIR said earlier this year that it received a total of 5,156 complaints of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias nationwide throughout 2022. It was the first time the annual number of complaints had fallen from the previous year since the organization started to report bias incidents in the 1990s.

CAIR has also been tracking publicly reported incidents of bias directed toward Muslim or Palestinian communities, including at least one murder, two attempted murders and "numerous violent threats, the use of vehicles as weapons to target protesters, and incidents involving guns being discharged or brandished to threaten supporters of Palestinian human rights," the organization said in Wednesday's news release.

The release cited the killing of 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume, a Palestinian-American and resident of Chicago who was stabbed to death on Oct. 15 by a landlord in an alleged hate crime. The boy's mother was also targeted in the stabbing and suffered injuries.

Saylor, echoing calls from protesters and advocacy groups across the country, urged President Biden to demand a cease-fire in Gaza and noted that "violence overseas is contributing to unrest here at home, and urgently requires his intervention."

[Da Coyote]

Hmmm, only intellect-challenged media morons can’t figure out what could be a cause.
Thankfully, there are studies in many areas for such morons” journalism, eddikashun, “studies”, and sociology.

[Big Red Badger]

The Lion of Judah Shall Prevail!
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Would That be counted?

[markman46]

Cair always lies, only the killing of the 6yr old kid is cited. Cair is a terrorist org

[Lurker]

CAIR is whining again.

Don’t care.

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[xp38]

Lies for the advance of Islam are encouraged. Taqiya!

[BK_in Central Texas]

Anyone who listens to CAIR is looking to be misinformed.

[willk]

Hey Emily! Why don’t you exercise a little good journalism and tell us who CAIR really is?

[ought-six]

Oh, BS. The upsurge in bias incidents is overwhelmingly directed against non-moslems, especially Jews.

[Dogbert41]

The terrorists have us by the balls because the MEDIA is on their side and always has been.

[ought-six]

“If it’s leftist atheists vs. Muslims, which side will you be on?”

On the side of the popcorn machine.

[logi_cal869]

See BS.

[ConservativeInPA]

I don’t know about you, but I always believe in statistics coming from credible terrorist organizations.

[HYPOCRACY]

It’s actually 0. Even the fake numbers are far too low though.

[jimfree]

Nonsense!

[grobdriver]

Get Your Retaliation in First

[Fireone]

Not nearly enough.

[fightglobalism]

And who brought these muslims here in the first place?

“Jewish community lends helping hand to migrants as influx continue to surge”
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/jewish-community-lending-helping-hand-migrants-influx-continue-surge/

[I want the USA back]

The folks realized that letting fertile fanatical maniacs into the country was a mistake.

[Candor7]

Palestinians...no one wants them.

Ask yourself why Egypt does not want them, why Jordan does not want them, Why Quatar for supporting Saddam Hsseins invasion of Qatar does not want them.....they were kicked out of Qatar , hundreds of thousands of them.

Palestinians are trouble makers and they are using every method they can ti twiddle with Americas sympathy for refugees in general. Cair wants millions of them to immigrate to the USA from Gaza , where they will destroy America and trty to extgermi ate all Jews living here..

If these complaints are happening due to incidents perpetrated against Palestinian supporters who approve of Hamas genocidal action in Israel on Oct 7th, then the compaints are unjustified, These islamic Palestinian supporters have been ripping down posters of the hostages captured by Hamasfomenting violebce against Jews on our University campuses,they also seek to prevent the California airing if video showing the carnage produced by Israels IDF.

Ever since the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem became a colleague of Adolf Hitler back in 1941, the Palestinians have wanted to exterminate the Jewish race, just like the Nazis attempted to do.

So thre are complaints from CAIR about Islamaphobia? Obama let hundreds o f thousands of Palestinians into America, Today they form a 5th column against the Constitution and the America does not want Palestinians here in our country. Just like Qatar,Jordan and Egypt do not want them. They create war out of peace.....they usurp whatever nation they are resident in, and they want to conduct genocide against Jews in America..

American does not want them here either.Deport their asses for hate speech , civil disorder, refusal to support and defend the Cpnstitution.

Palestine's Grand Mufti and Adolf Hitler planed the extermination of the Jews. CAIR and others need to understand...NEVER AGAIN!!!!

Amin al-Hosseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, reviewing Nazi Muslim Bosnian Troops. Bosnia, 1941

[kaktuskid]

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