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With the House approval of a bill that seeks to combat “worldwide” Islamophobia in response to a Republican representative’s anti-Muslim remarks, there is an effort in the United States to combat varying types of discrimination. Hate crimes against Muslims rose 1617% from 2000 to 2001, according to the FBI.

Although the number of hate crimes against Muslims has dropped since its exorbitant rise immediately after 9/11, Muslims were targeted through surveillance, arrests, and raids. Through the normalization of Islamophobic rhetoric trickling down from officials to media to the general public, there has been a recent increase in visibility of Islamophobic attacks and targeting of Muslim students in university campuses. 

Over the past month from students to truck drivers, workers have been protesting unfair working conditions and contracts. Laws regarding workers’ rights are being called into question as workers express discontent and anger at unfair working conditions, exacerbated due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and consequent growing income inequality, not only in the US, but around the world.

Islamophobic incidents are at an all time high. Who is to blame?