Anti-Muslim Bias Growing In U.S.: Report

CAIR said it also received 153 reports of anti-Muslim hate crime complaints, an 8.6 percent increase from the 141 complaints received in 2004. A CAIR statement said the rise appeared to be caused by such factors as "the lingering impact of post-9/11 fears, increased awareness of civil rights issues in the Muslim community and a general increase in anti-Muslim rhetoric in American society." "We believe the biggest factor contributing to anti-Muslim feeling and the resulting acts of bias is the growth in Islamophobic rhetoric that has flooded the Internet and talk radio in the post-9/11 era," said CAIR Legal Director Arsalan Iftikhar, the report's author. http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060918-042040-9697r

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