The Rise of Anti-Muslim Violence (cont)
The year before the attack in 2000, there were only 12 anti-Muslim assaults reported to the FBI. By the end of 2001, that number had shot up to 93. Law enforcement and the Transportation Security Administration received heavy criticism for the racial profiling of Arab and Muslim men as hate crimes against Muslims continued to rise.
The discrimination, hostility, and violence statistics remained consistently high in the intervening years, hitting a peak of 127 attacks in 2016. When then President Trump signed an executive order banning people from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the USA in 2017, it only exacerbated the problem. Just this year, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reported a 9% increase in the number of civil rights complaints it received from Muslims.
