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When Islamophobia Turns Violent: The 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections
Posted on May 2, 2016 at 3:33 pm.
Written by Bridge Initiative Team
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report highlights trends and patterns surrounding Islamophobia since the start of the 2016 U.S. presidential election cycle. It does so in the broader context of hatred, violence and social hostilities confronting Muslims as a minority faith group in contemporary America and with a particular focus on acts and threats of violence.
Since 2015, the Bridge Initiative has been chronicling Islamophobic political rhetoric by each presidential candidate irrespective of his or her party affiliation while finding Republican candidates to be the worst offenders to date. In this publication, however, we aim to contextualize such statements nationally and internationally while also exploring potentially violent effects.
To that end, we examined two distinct but overlapping time periods: January 2015 through December 2015 (entire duration of 2015) and March 2015 through March 2016 (2016 presidential election season).
Based upon our analysis, the following observations are noteworthy:
BY: ENGY ABDELKADER, J.D., LL.M
RESEARCH TEAM: ENGY ABDELKADER, JORDAN DENARI, NATHAN LEAN
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DECEMBER 2015 SURGE
Anti-Muslim attacks surged in December 2015. There were 53 total attacks that month, 17 of which targeted mosques and Islamic schools and 5 of which targeted Muslim homes. Click the infographic on the right to download and share it.
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