Hate Crimes Against Muslims Continue to Rise in 2016
A long-anticipated report from a prominent Muslim-American civil rights organization was released this week showing that reported hate crimes against Muslims in the United States rose dramatically in 2016, just as they did in 2015.
Reporting on hate crimes in the US is notoriously inexact. Victims underreport crimes, state and local law enforcement inconsistently record information, and local authorities often fail to provide accurate information to federal agencies. But data released last year from several sources, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, indicated anti-Muslim hate incidents surged in 2015.