Report says Islamophobia on the rise

(RNS) A new report asserts that anti-Muslim prejudice has worsened in
recent years, but argues the trend could be reversed with greater
community outreach.

The report, "Same Hate, New Target: Islamophobia and its Impact in
the United States," was released Thursday (June 23) by the Council on
American-Islamic Relations and the University of California Berkeley's
Center for Race and Gender.

While the report said there are no comprehensive figures to quantify
the problem, anti-Muslim discrimination is broken into several
categories, including hate crimes, workplace issues, schools, public
accommodation, mosque vandalism and religious "profiling."