Two days after three Muslim students were shot and killed in a possible hate crime in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a Muslim man was assaulted at a grocery store in Dearborn, Michigan, possibly as part of a rising tide of alleged Islamophobia in the United States.
"We're really seeing a spike in anti-Muslim hate rhetoric since the Charlie Hebdo attack," Ibrahim Hooper, communications director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told Mashable, referring to the deadly attack last month against a satirical magazine in Paris. "Personally, I've gotten dozens and dozens of hate emails and calls and even threats that have been turned over to the FBI, and we see this being replicated all over the country." Read more...
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