Immediately following 9/11, Muslim Americans faced what Human Rights Watch called "a severe wave of backlash violence". A tide of hate rose up against ordinary Muslims and those who appeared to be Muslim, including at least three murders in the immediate backlash after the attacks.
Immediately following 9/11, Muslim Americans faced what Human Rights Watch called "a severe wave of backlash violence".
A tide of hate rose up against ordinary Muslims and those who appeared to be Muslim, including at least three murders in the immediate backlash after the attacks.
The federal government, for its part, began targeting Muslim immigrants in a massive surge of repression that legal experts soon compared to the Palmer Raids of the 1920s.
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Immediately following 9/11, Muslim Americans faced what Human Rights Watch called "a severe wave of backlash violence". A tide of hate rose up against ordinary Muslims and those who appeared to be Muslim, including at least three murders in the immediate backlash after the attacks. The federal government, for its part, began targeting Muslim immigrants in a massive surge of repression that legal experts soon compared to the Palmer Raids of the 1920s.
Anti-Muslim sentiment is used as a political weapon.
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