Washington : In the first five days after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, the Southern Poverty Law Center recorded more than 400 incidents of “hateful harassment and intimidation” of minorities.
Muslims have suffered the biggest spike in attacks, partly because Trump singled out Islam for criticism throughout the campaign. On Nov. 14, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that hate crimes against Muslims in 2015 surged to their highest level in more than a decade, Reuters reported quoting journalism Professor at New York University and former Middle East Bureau Chief at Newsday Mohammad Bazzi.
The center, which monitors hate speech nationwide, drew on news accounts, direct reports, and social media postings to find that many incidents “involved direct references to the Trump campaign and its slogans.”
Other civil rights groups have reported a rash of verbal and physical abuse targeting minorities, including Muslims, blacks, Latinos, Jews, and immigrants, around the country since November 9, the day after the election. Clearly, the surge in hate incidents shows that Trump and his top advisers created a climate in which some supporters feel that they can openly express bigotry, racism, and homophobia.
Now that Trump has been elected president, many Muslim Americans fear that he and his confidantes will turn some of these proposals into reality.
The FBI statistics on nationwide hate crimes released last week offer an incomplete picture of the problem because local law enforcement agencies provide data voluntarily to the FBI, and many fail to report hate crimes. Even FBI Director James Comey acknowledged the problem of underreporting when he released the latest figures. “We need to do a better job of tracking and reporting hate crime to understand what is happening in our communities fully,” he said, “and how to stop it.”
Because many people fail to report hate crimes to local police, civil rights groups argue that the real number of such incidents is far larger than the annual FBI data indicates. One recent government study, conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, estimated that there were 293,800 hate crimes in 2012 about 50 times higher than the FBI numbers. The study found that 60 percent of incidents were not reported to police.
Today, as reports of hate crimes and harassment surge after a bitter presidential race, the onus is on Trump to tone down his own rhetoric and that of his advisers. But so far, the president-elect has shown little interest in tackling the wave of hatred and abuse that was partly unleashed by his campaign.
Hate crimes in Michigan have spiked in recent days after the presidential election, alarming state officials and community leaders, who are mobilizing to prevent more bias.
From Grand Rapids to Dearborn to Royal Oak, Latinos, Arab Americans, Muslims, Indian Americans, Jewish people and others have reportedly being targeted with insults or physical attacks, said officials and advocacy groups, Detroit Free Press reported. The Michigan Department of Civil Rights said it had a sharp increase in the number of calls received since the election and in incidents recorded.
The Monday after the election, the department received 40 calls from Michigander’s reporting they were victims of bias crimes, compared with about 23 on an average day, said officials. And in the department’s community outreach program, which is a separate branch, there were 30 hate incidents recorded in just the 10 days after the election compared with only about six to eight usually recorded during an entire year.—SM/IINA
I dont think all Americans hate Muslims or others.These are pure racists like Ku Klux Klan type,who have racial hatred.
There are thousands of Muslims serving America in various fields,moreover American take foriegners who contribute to American,Any lowly jobs are done by foreigners because American dont have people to do it.
America should remeber that it is thirld world and muslim countries on whome it is surviving .
They are like robbers,not only they rob off money but brains too.
American business men pure profit mongers .
Like An American is A Guy Who Can Do Anything For Money