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Crimes committed by muslims3/13/2023 In Minneapolis, a man shouting obscenities about Islam shot two Muslim men in traditional religious garb in June, the authorities said. And in Queens, a man was beaten in April by three strangers who shouted “ISIS, ISIS.” In Brooklyn, two women out walking their children in strollers were attacked this month, the police said, by a woman who screamed anti-Muslim obscenities and tried to rip off their traditional veils. Hakey began a six-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to a hate crime charge. Hours later, in a drunken rampage, he fired a high-powered rifle four times into the mosque next door to his Connecticut home. wrote to a friend on Facebook after last November’s terrorist attacks in Paris. “I hate ISLAM!” a former Marine named Ted Hakey Jr. Sometimes, the evidence is more clear-cut. The police said that a parking dispute, not bigotry, may have led to the killings. In the killing last year of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, N.C., for instance, the authorities did not bring hate crime charges against a neighbor who is charged with murdering them, despite calls from Muslims who said there were religious overtones to the violence. One exception was hate crimes against transgender people, which rose about 40 percent. The rise came even as hate crimes against almost all other groups - including blacks, Hispanics, Jews, gays and whites - either declined or increased only slightly, his study found. The huge increase last year was also the biggest annual rise since 2001, he said. 11 attacks set off waves of crimes targeting Muslims and Middle Easterners, Mr. That was the most since the record 481 documented hate crimes against Muslims in 2001, when the Sept. Levin’s nonpartisan group, based on official police reports in 20 states, estimated that there were about 260 hate crimes against Muslims nationwide in 2015. “The negative rhetoric is causing the hate, and in turn the hate is causing the violent acts.” “There is a lot of negative rhetoric,” he said. The arson, along with an earlier assault on a congregant outside the mosque and other episodes there, has left worshipers scared, said Mohammed Malik, 43, a businessman who has attended the mosque for nearly a decade. The latest major episode of anti-Muslim violence came last weekend, when an arsonist on a motorcycle started a fire that engulfed the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, Fla., where Omar Mateen - the gunman in the June massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando - had sometimes prayed. He said that the frequency of anti-Muslim violence appeared to have increased immediately after some of Mr. “The bottom line is we’re talking about a significant increase in these types of hate crimes.” “We’re seeing these stereotypes and derogative statements become part of the political discourse,” said Brian Levin, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at the San Bernardino campus. Trump, who has called for a ban on immigration by Muslims and a national registry of Muslims in the United States. Some scholars believe that the violent backlash against American Muslims is driven not only by the string of terrorist attacks in Europe and the United States that began early last year, but also by the political vitriol from candidates like Donald J.
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