Islamophobia: A Discussion About The Causes And Possible Solutions

"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 ofCAIR-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.

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