Hate Crimes Against Muslims

With only a small percentage of muslims participating in extremist groups and attacks there is no justification for the backlash brought upon the muslim community. Islamophobia only brings about hostility and assults, both physically and verbally, towards muslims. The number of hate crimes towards muslims has increased drastically and little to nothing has been done to stop these acts. Hate crimes against muslim include accusing someone of being a terrorist because they are muslims or blaming them for terrorist attack, defacing women wearing hijabs or other traditional head coverage and defacing mosques or muslim graves. Many of the hate crimes perpetrated against Muslims in the United States have been violent. On February 10, 2015, three Muslim students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, were murdered execution-style in their own home over a parking issue with a white neighbor. …show more content…
Witnesses reported that Klimek told the victim to “go back to Islam.” Three such incidents in New York City included a Muslim store owner who was attacked and beaten by a man who came into his grocery store; a sixth grade girl wearing a hijab who was beaten in the schoolyard during recess by three boys who called her “ISIS”; and a Muslim man leaving a mosque who was beaten and left lying in the street by three white men.For example, Paula Zahra ,a muslim woman living in Brazil, was spat on and called a “bomb woman” just last November. Muslims face discrimination in all aspects of life, being turned away from housing or employment due to their religious