04/03/2024

Anti-Muslim Incidents Climbed Sharply in 2023

The Council on American-Islamic Relations reported a surge in complaints

There was a huge surge in anti-Muslim bias incidents in 2023, the highest number of such incidents recorded in 30 years, according to the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the U.S.'s largest Muslim civil rights organization.

CAIR received a large number of complaints over anti-Muslim incidents last year, nearly half of which were reported in the last three months alone, after the Israel-Gaza war began on Oct. 7.

The group received a total of 8,061 complaints in 2023. The most common complaints CAIR received in 2023 were related to immigration and asylum, 20 percent of all complaints, followed by employment discrimination, 15 percent; education discrimination, 8.5 percent; and hate crimes and incidents, 7.5 percent, according to the CAIR's annual civil rights report.

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