Washington Post (RNS) — Report details discrimination faced by American Muslims.
A new report from the Council on American-Islamic Relations notes a rise in complaints about bias directed at the nation’s Muslims,
detailing incidents that the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy organization has addressed over the past year.
The report, titled “Resilience in the Face of Hate: Civil Rights Report 2021,” found a 9% increase in complaints in 2020, even as hate crimes fell by 20%.
The authors gave no reason for the increase in complaints but suggested that
the decrease in hate crimes was due indirectly to COVID-19 lockdowns that kept people at home.
Report details discrimination faced by American Muslims detILS 6,144 civil rights complaints that CAIR received,
either at its national headquarters in Washington, D.C., or through its affiliates around the nation, in 2020.
CAIR identified seven categories of complaint: Besides immigration and travel issues, the organization tracked law enforcement surveillance and overreach issues.
Moreover prisoner rights issues, incidents involving educational facilities, outright discrimination, hate and bias incidents, and “other” incidents.