Muslims Calling for Peace Have Been Answered with Islamophobia

In early February, two of America’s most prominent newspapers published bigoted op-eds about the Muslim community — one called a Michigan city “America’s Jihad Capital,” and the other compared the Middle East to the animal kingdom. Days later, a Palestinian American was stabbed by a man who attempted to remove a scarf reading “Free Palestine” and screamed a racial slur. ...These are just the latest in a mountain of attacks against Muslim and Arab Americans since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks against Israel. As we have seen before, crises in the Middle East are almost always weaponized to target our communities. The Muslim civil rights group Council on American-Islamic Relations recently reported more than 3,500 complaints during the last three months of 2023, a surge of 178% over the same period in 2022. Read Full Article »