By Muslim Mirror Special correspondent
A report published on Monday by the Council on American Islamic Relation and University of California Berkeley’s Centre for Race and Gender names 74 groups they say contributed to Islamophobia in the US Inciting hate toward American Muslims and Islam has become a multimillion-dollar business.
According to the report published in theguardian, 74 groups contributed in some way to Islamophobia in the US. Of those groups, it says, the primary purpose of 33 “is to promote prejudice against, or hatred of, Islam and Muslims”.
The core group, which includes the Abstraction Fund,Clarion Project,David Horowitz Freedom Centre,Middle East Forum,American Freedom Law Centre,Centre for Security Policy,Investigative project on Terrorism,Jihad Watch and Act for America, had access to almost $206m of funding between 2008 and 2013, the report said.
Corey Saylor,the author of the report and director of Cair’s department to monitor and combat Islamophobia, said: “The hate that these groups are funding and inciting is having real consequences like attacks on mosques all over the country and new laws discriminating against Muslims in America.”
Saylor added that the Washington-based Center for Security Policy and Act! for America have the most impact, because they are trying to push their anti-Muslim rhetoric beyond their formerly fringe following.
Two groups on the list, the Centre for Security Policy and the David Horovitz Freedom Centre have given awards of recognition to Jeff Sessions, a US senator from Alabama who chairs Trump’s national security advisory committee and is a possible vice-presidential pick.
On Monday, the headline on the David Horovitz Freedom Centre Website was “Muslim privilege killed 49 people in Orlando”, a reference to the mass shooting on 12 June in an Orlando LGBT nightclub by Omar Mateen a Muslim American from Port St Lucie, Florida.
The Cair-UCB report also tracks anti-Islam bills, which it says have become law in 10 states, and 78 recorded incidents in 2015 in which mosques were targeted. Saylor said this was the highest yearly number of attacks on mosques since Cair started tracking in 2009.
Corey Sailor,the report author,said that “The hate that these groups are funding and inciting is having real consequences”.
The report unearths how the organised and relentless campaign against Islam and Muslims are tarnishing the image of Islam and Musims world over.
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