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report on discrimination faced by Muslims in America

Date: July 15, 2003 | 15 Jumada al-Awwal 1424 Hijriah
Blog: veiled4allah
Subjects: islamophobia, muslims, discrimination, america, civilrights
Meanwhile, CAIR has published its annual report on Muslim American civil rights. A sample of the report is available online (Word document). According to the report, there was a 15% increase in discrimination complaints from last year. Overall, discrimination complaints are 64% greater than before 9/11. The most common places of occurrence were workplaces, government agencies, and airports. The most common types of complaints were passenger profiling; unreasonable detention, search, or interrogation; employment discrimination; and verbal harassment. After religion or ethinicity, the most common trigger is the hijab (headscarf). I think that the religion/ethnicity category subsumes the other categories since a hijab or niqab, physical appearance, or a name are what indicate religion or ethnicity to others so that a person could list the hijab as a trigger while also reporting that the harassment was targeted at her religion.

The increase over last year jibes with my experiences. Fortunately, I have not experienced any form of official discrimination, either by agencies or in a workplace or school. However, the amount of verbal harassment I experience when out and about has increased, I feel, as has the amount of low-level annoyance like rude comments or exaggerated staring. I think there's also been an increase in "internet harassment" (hateful or obscene email messages targeted at my religion, comments posted to my blog, and similar). I would consider only a few of these incidents to be truly serious and only one real-life incident was genuinely frightening to me.
~ Posted by Al-Muhajabah, a member of the reality-based community, at 09:52 PM

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