Sakshi Venkatraman is a reporter for NBC Asian America.
The Council on American Islamic Relations said 2023 was the year it received the highest number of bias reports in its 30-year history. A report released Tuesday from the Muslim civil rights organization CAIR shows it got 8,061 complaints nationally last year from Muslims who reported experiencing discrimination or hate incidents. It’s the largest number the group has ever gotten, the report said, and represents a 56% increase from 2022.
“While every wave of bias has the tragedy of people being attacked, places of worship being targeted, this one that we endured October through December, it has a couple of standouts, and those standouts are very personal targeting of students,” Saylor said. The report also cites a December incident in Georgia in which a middle school teacher was arrested after allegedly threatening to cut off the head of a student who questioned an Israeli flag in his classroom.
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