How to Report and Handle Hate Crimes

If you or someone you know has experienced a hate crime, please report it and seek help. Contact one of the organizations below for help in reporting and handling hate crimes. 

American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee
[email protected]
202-244-2990

​Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) 
[email protected]
202-488-8787

Muslim Advocates

There is no denying that anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise in America. Attacks on Muslims and their places of worship are becoming more frequent, particularly since the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and the shooting in San Bernardino, Calif.

FROM THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE BLOG:

Fol­low­ing the ter­ror­ist events in Paris, hos­til­ity and attacks against the Mus­lim com­mu­nity around the coun­try have esca­lated on the ground, online and in the pub­lic discourse. 

Such anti-Muslim inci­dents and sen­ti­ment not only cre­ate an atmos­phere of fear, but also feed into claims made by ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tions such as ISIS of America’s inher­ent ani­mos­ity towards Islam and Mus­lims. They use this nar­ra­tive as a tac­tic to gain more support.

Below are reported threats, attacks and other inci­dents directed at the Amer­i­can Mus­lim com­mu­nity in the week fol­low­ing the Paris attacks:

Novem­ber 13: Threat­en­ing calls to a Mosque in St. Peters­burg, Florida
A man was arrested after he left sev­eral threat­en­ing voice­mails for the Islamic Cen­ter of Pinel­las County in Pinel­las Park. He report­edly cited the Paris attacks and warned that he was going to go to “fire­bomb you and shoot who­ever is there.”

Novem­ber 14: Michi­gan woman tweets threats against Mus­lims in Dear­born, Michi­gan
A woman from Fort Gra­tiot was inves­ti­gated by police after she posted a threat on Twit­ter that read: “Dear­born, MI, has the high­est Mus­lim pop­u­la­tion in the United States. Let’s (exple­tive) that place up and send a mes­sage to ISIS.”