US Muslim students face high levels of Islamophobic bullying: Report

: Islamophobia in the United States public schools is a prevalent and ongoing problem, according to a recent report by the Council on American-Islamic Relations .

“Often, such events manifest in the form of bullying by other students, lack of preventative and reporting measures by school officials, and insufficient training for educators as to how to mediate or de-escalate religious, racial and ethnically-charged bullying,” Shabaik told Anadolu Agency. More than half of respondents, 55.73 per cent, reported feeling unsafe, unwelcome, or uncomfortable at school due to their Muslim identity, the highest reported level since CAIR-California began doing the survey in 2013.

The report also found approximately one-third of students experienced or witnessed some form of cyberbullying. Professor Zahra Jamal, the associate director of Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance, told Anadolu Agency that bullying and racism have far-reaching effects including emotional, physical, and even social consequences.

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