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Cordell said the killings fit into a 1700 percent increase in the number of overall assaults and vandalism cases reported by Human Rights Watch during the first year after Sept. 11.
Three minutes of a google search and copy-paste. This article was posted on Sept 15, 2001
Leaders of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) and the Arab American Institute (AAI) report there have been over 200 incidents of abuse directed against Arab-Americans since the September 11 terror attacks. Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said, “The atmosphere is very tense for Muslims in this country.” Fearing violence, some families have kept children out of school and a number of mosques and Islamic academies remain closed.....
In the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview Wednesday night police turned back 300 people who were shouting “USA, USA” and marching on a local mosque. In nearby Palo Heights someone used a 2-foot machete to attack a gas station attendant he thought was Arabic. Someone else threw a Molotov cocktail at an Arab-American community center in Chicago, one of half a dozen incidents under investigation by the city’s hate crime unit.
Six bullets were fired at a suburban Dallas Muslim center, and vandals defaced a mosque in the Virginia suburbs of the nation’s capital with obscene graffiti. In northern Indiana, gunmen shot up Arab-owned gas stations and damaged a Jordanian restaurant.
In the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview Wednesday night police turned back 300 people who were shouting “USA, USA” and marching on a local mosque. In nearby Palo Heights someone used a 2-foot machete to attack a gas station attendant he thought was Arabic. Someone else threw a Molotov cocktail at an Arab-American community center in Chicago, one of half a dozen incidents under investigation by the city’s hate crime unit.
Six bullets were fired at a suburban Dallas Muslim center, and vandals defaced a mosque in the Virginia suburbs of the nation’s capital with obscene graffiti. In northern Indiana, gunmen shot up Arab-owned gas stations and damaged a Jordanian restaurant.
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