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June 21, 2016

Report: Attacks on Mosques in U.S. Reach Record High with 78 Last Year
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Attacks on mosques in the United States have reached a record high. The
Council on American-Islamic Relations and UC Berkeley recorded 78
attacks on mosques last year, the highest since the monitoring began in
2009. CAIR's Corey Saylor outlined the findings.

Corey Saylor: "The last time we had a really intense cycle of
anti-mosque incidents was in 2010 during the national controversy over
Park51, the ground zero mosque. That was characterized by attempts to
stop mosque construction and expansion, what we call zoning incidents.
This time around it has a much more violent tenor to it, and we see a
lot more acts of intimidation targeting mosques. Of those 78 incidents,
34 of them occurred in November and December of last year, which many of
us consider to be one of the worst periods of anti-Islam sentiment."

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