Now they’re skyrocketing again. As the graphic above shows, Arabs, Muslims and transgender people all experienced a dramatic increase in hate crimes between 2014 and 2015. HuffPost’s Islamophobia tracker has documented 261 anti-Muslim acts so far in 2016. 

Yet the factors contributing to the spike in anti-Muslim rhetoric and violence are complex and include not only high-profile terrorist attacks ― like the ones last year in Paris and San Bernardino, California ― but also existing prejudices and stereotypes that depict Muslims negatively, the researchers note. 

Politicians’ Islamophobic statements on the campaign trail may have contributed to a climate of hate. Several Republican presidential candidates ― including the GOP nominee ― have called for shuttering mosques, killing families of terrorists, waterboarding terror suspects, developing a religious test for refugee admission, and have compared Muslim refugees to rabid dogs.

Trump has also proposed banning all Muslims from entering the U.S. and establishing a national registry of all Muslims already here.

To measure a possible “Trump effect,” researchers tracked how many hate crimes occurred after Trump proposed his Muslim ban. Eight anti-Muslim hate crimes occurred after the San Bernardino attacks, but before Trump tweeted about the Muslim ban on Dec. 7. Yet on the day Trump proposed the ban and over the next four days, there were 15 hate crimes (including two on Dec. 7, after he tweeted).

Those crimes included multiple assaults and two fire bombings, one in the hours immediately following Trump’s announcement, the researchers said.

They also found a moderate weekly rise in hate searches on Google, like “kill all Muslims,” after Trump proposed his Muslim ban.

Altogether, there was an 87.5 percent increase in hate crimes against Muslims in the days directly following Trump’s proposal.  

Source:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hate-crimes-muslims-since-911_us_57e00644e4b04a1497b59970?utm_hp_ref=islam