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Explaining the rise in hate crimes against Muslims in the US

FBI data show that in 2015 there were 257 hate crimes against Muslims - the highest level since 2001

President Donald Trump speaks about the US role in the Paris climate change accord on Friday in the White House, Washington, US. Photo: AP/PTI
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President Donald Trump speaks about the US role in the Paris climate change accord on Friday in the White House, Washington, US. Photo: AP/PTI

Brian Levin | The Conversation

Hate crimes against Muslims have been on the rise. The murder of two samaritans for aiding two young women who were facing a barrage of anti-Muslim slurs on a Portland train is among the latest examples of brazen acts of anti-Islamic hatred.

Earlier in 2017, a mosque in Victoria, Texas was burned to the ground by an alleged anti-Muslim bigot. And just last year, members of a small extremist group called “The Crusaders” plotted a bombing “bloodbath” at a residential housing complex for Somali-Muslim immigrants in Garden City, Kansas.

I have analyzed hate