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WASHINGTON (RNS) Anti-Muslim discrimination reached an all-time high in 2007, according to a report released Wednesday (Sept. 24) by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
\nThe District of Columbia and just nine other states account for 80 percent of the civil rights complaints. California leads with one in five complaints, followed by Washington, D.C., and Illinois. The prime factors for discrimination are an individual’s ethnicity, religion or “Muslim name,” according the report.
\nThe report said incidents of due-process issues, physical violence, denials of service or access, and verbal harassment decreased last year, but passenger profiling reports increased by 340 percent. Claims of workplace discrimination increased by 18 percent, the report said.
\nCAIR recently got involved in a case of religious accommodation for workers at JBS Swift & Co. meatpacking plants, and has produced a pamphlet entitled “An Employer’s Guide to Islamic Religious Practices”
\nfor distribution.
\nCorey Saylor, CAIR’s national legislative director and author of the report, said the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes — defined as any crime against property or person where the victim is selected because of a perceived faith — decreased in 2007.
\n“We are cautiously optimistic,” said Saylor. “We hope the wave of anti-Muslim hate crimes we’ve seen through the years is starting to
\nlevel off.”
\nGiven the results of this year’s report, Saylor recommended asking elected officials and other public officials to condemn anti-Muslim bias.
\n“When authority figures are sending positive messages about Islam,”
\nhe said, “we find that people are less inclined to go out and commit anti-Muslim discrimination.”
\nBy Ashley Gipson
\nReligion News Service<\/em>
\nCopyright 2008 Religion News Service. All rights reserved. No part of this transmission may be distributed or reproduced without written permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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