Instructor Discrimination Against American Musl

NameInstructor CourseDate Discrimination against American MuslimsHate crimes refer to “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity”. Since the September 11 attacks which the Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for; there has been a rampant increase in the number of hate crimes against Muslims in the America. These crimes include the burning down of mosques, murder, threats, physical injury and destruction of private property. According to the article titled “Hate Crimes against American Muslims Most since Post-9/11 Era” by Eric Lichtblau, Anti-Muslim hate crimes have reached its peak since the beginning of 2015. The Author is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Times. The article reports that the prevalence of “hate crimes against American Muslims were up 78 percent over the course of 2015. Attacks on those perceived as Arab rose even more sharply” (Lichtblau 1). Arabs are people who inhabit the Western Asia, North Africa, and parts of the Horn of Africa. These regions in the recent past have experienced a sharp rise of terror groups such as the A Qaeda,