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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
In the first six months of 2024 alone, nearly 5,000 complaints were filed with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), marking a sharp increase from the same period in the previous year. This comes as it was recently revealed that Islamophobia, as well as the situation in Gaza, are among the top issues for Muslim American voters in 2024.
CAIR reported that it had received 4,951 complaints of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian acts in the first half of 2024, compared to 2,937 reported in the same period in 2023. The rise in anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian discrimination and harassment comes amid a global wave of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, which has intensified since the start of the conflict between Israel and Hamas following the militant group’s attack on the Jewish state on October 7 and Israel’s subsequent response on Gaza, which numerous countries and international organizations have described as “genocide.”
The report by CAIR reveals that there was a significant increase in complaints of Islamophobia in the educational field in May during protests on university campuses across the US over the Israeli military’s operation in Gaza. Student protests, which called for an end to economic and military support for Israel, received extensive media coverage during that period.
In that regard, Corey Saylor, the CAIR’s director of research and advocacy, said, “Too many places of higher education, which have historically permitted Islamophobic speakers to poison their campus in the name of academic freedom, apparently find anti-genocide speech intolerable. Since last fall university administrators have been a primary perpetrator of anti-Muslim racism.”
“Our data shows that as student protests dominated media coverage of the movement opposing the Gaza genocide, employers also continued punishing their employees for their viewpoints. We are also seeing Federal Agencies like Customs and Border Protection and the FBI interpreting being Muslim or anti-genocide as suspicious activity,” Saylor added.
The complaints filed, the report notes, also included hate crimes and discrimination in immigration, asylum and employment processes. CAIR said it received 8,061 complaints throughout 2023, with nearly half—3,578—in the last three months of 2023, after the conflict between Israel and Hamas broke out.
At the same time, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an organization that watches over the human rights of Jewish people around the world, reported that anti-Semitic incidents in the US increased by 140% in 2023 compared to the previous year.
The ADL stated in April, “8,873 incidents of assault, harassment, and vandalism across the country. The total represents a 140-percent increase from 2022 – already a record-setting year – and the highest level recorded since ADL started tracking this data in 1979.”
Given that Islamophobia has increased in the US, it is unsurprising that Islamophobia, along with the situation in Gaza, are among the top issues for Muslim American voters in 2024. A new poll conducted by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) in partnership with Change Research and Emgage Foundation shortly before President Joe Biden Biden dropped out of the 2024 US presidential election found Muslim American disillusionment with the Democrats on the war in Gaza and rising issues of Islamophobia.
According to the poll, the majority of Muslim Americans who voted for Biden in 2020 said before his departure that they would not vote for him in 2024 because of his policies on Gaza.
In 2020, 65% of Muslim voters chose Biden over Trump. Muslim American votes could have played a pivotal role in the results of three swing states — Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania — that Biden won and ensured his ultimate victory. However, the 2024 poll found that only 12% of Muslim Americans said they intended to vote for Biden.
In regards to Kamala Harris, expected to be the Democrat candidate to challenge Donald Trump, Muslim Americans might be enticed by her if she carries out their main demand – a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Although she has vowed not to “look away” or “be silent” towards the suffering in Gaza, she has made no effort to secure a ceasefire. Harris will not be able to win back the Muslim American vote Biden lost without supporting the end of arms transfers to Israel, restoration of funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency to help Palestinians, and ensuring humanitarian aid reaches Gaza.
However, Muslim Americans will be disappointed if they expect Kamala Harris or Donald Trump to openly endorse a ceasefire, end arms transfers to Israel, or ensure humanitarian aid reaches Gaza. Rather, it is likely that empty promises will be made whilst Islamophobia is allowed to fester as the conflict in the Middle East deepens.
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you have arrived in new sodom, what do you awaiting? of course there will be islamophobia, not only because zionists inspiring it, but mainly by the reason of raising sodomy and satanism, which fights any abrahamic religion. they will get you sooner or later, even if you are common human not sharing opinion to public, like that baker who refused to cook a cake for faggots “marriage” and fined for “hate crime”.
“like that baker who refused to cook a cake for faggots”
the start of about 200 good jokes, and no, you don’t need to spare the pollocks…
i love humor, but there is nothing funny. real hate crime was after that, when faggots started to phone call to that baker with promises to kill him and his family. i tried to find out the name and found info about another couple (wife and husband) of bakers persecuted for false “hate crime”. normal people are being repressed by sodomites. i doubt that bakery of islam believers will take order to cook something for sodomites, so they will be repressed too.
it is joos.
and the first jew in washington is george washington.
if those “incident(s)” haven’t involved something akin to (3 buldings 2 planes) and dancing men with small hats -rest assured… they are comin!…
‘the militant group’s attack on the jewish state on october 7’
yesterday u.araujo’s incorrect slur against palestine, now propagandist untruths. zios illegally occupy palestinian land, encouraged to attack for 75 + years by gb (the colonials) and usa since 1948; not just since 7 oct 2023. as the palestinian state further shrinks, hms only does what any resistance group can do against the heavily armed psychotic invader, which is to make life uncomfortable.
i bet uriel araujo know this well.
in like eat islam food cuz i obese nazi
fair admission danish idiot..
complain away, but where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and for years we have been reading from europe about incidents involving islamists. we are coming up on the 23rd anniversary of 9/11/01, and there is a lot of distrust involving the muslim community. the 80 years’ war continues. ‘death to israel, death to america’.-iran
9/11 was 100% kosher. just like the uss liberty, lavon affair, the list is endless. they kill thousands of stupid goy amerikunts and laugh in their faces.
the zios pay bogus “right wing” “patriotic” groups to stir up trouble with moslems all over the world for israel. tommy ten names robinson and the “edl”, modelled on the terrorist “jewish defence league” get £10,000 a month in zio money to stir up trouble. he is always waving israeli flags around and dancing around on israeli tanks on the golan heights. when he was jailed there was a big campaign in israel to get him released. wilders in holland is just the same.
somebody who believes in and lives according to laws based on divine segregation … laments about discrimination. yeah 😂😂😂
we don’t fear you. we fear what becomes of us and our humanism based societies after we will have to deal and resolve the issue of pseudoreligious nazis.
btw the same aplies to zionazis
soros got a problem,not welcome in israel and all his supporters are nazi liberal sodom puftas,sic fks!
the so called anti semitic incidents are all “wotcherdoin, rabbi?” hoaxes. when trumpenstein was president, there were hundreds of bomb threats to us synagogues. all of these were made by a jewish man in israel. a jewish man was caught vandalising jewish cemeteries in france. they are all fake. aipac spends a fortune on spray paint for its agent provocateurs to paint swastikas on synagogues. just their old tricks.