The word Islamophobia means hatred of the Islamic religion or Muslims. It first started in the 20th century then became important during the 1990’s, and it reached public policy with the report entitled Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All (1997) by the Runnymede Trust, where it talked about the disadvantages for Muslims. When the September 11 attacks occurred it resulted in an increase of Islamophobia and was a key event because this made people hate Muslims even more, especially Americans who were affected by the bombing. Hate crime started to rise up against Muslims, in 2007, an Iranian American named Zohreh Assemi was brutalized by robbers and called a “terrorist,” this put fear in Muslims, and it didn’t stop there. According to a 2017
