Some of the events were organized by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has been working with Mr. Dghoughi’s family. Faizan Syed, the executive director of C.A.I.R. in Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth, said the authorities had initially given the family little information beyond a statement on Oct. 11 about the shooting.
“Stefanae agreed to come to work but due to the overall negative hostile atmosphere at work she couldn’t stay and decided to leave,” said Faizan Syed, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Texas. The civil rights group is representing Coleman in the matter.
"After September the Eleventh, you would expect there would be a spike in anti-Muslim or anti-Islam attacks in the United States," said Faizan Syed, executive director of CAIR-St. Louis. "And that's what we saw after September the Eleventh. But what's unique is that after the first few years, those percentage of attacks actually kept going down and down and decreased. And then in 2008 and 2009, we saw another spike in those biased, motivated attacks. And we've seen that height now more than even after September the Eleventh." That's where the network of organizations identified in the report comes in.
‘The hardest part was keeping my composure for three hours after being insulted,’ says passenger