On Saturday an “improvised explosive device” was detonated in a Minneapolis-area mosque in what Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton denounced as a “dastardly, cowardly” hate crime.
It's just the latest case in an ever-quickening escalation of anti-Islamic incidents at mosques, according to data compiled by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). According to CAIR's figures, in the first half of 2017 there were 85 such incidents. That's more than the total number of incidents in any year between 2009 and 2015. And while 2016's numbers aren't fully compiled yet, the six-month tally for 2017 is already greater than the number of incidents in the first nine months of last year.
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