By September, 2015
September 1, 2015 – The mayor of Sterling Heights, MI, comments his opposition against the building of a mosque in the city, stating that his “heart breaks for the people of Iraq and around the world who are being terrorized by Islamic terrorists,” and that he will do everything in his power to protect the Chaldean and Iraqi Christian populations of the city.
September 3, 2015 – CAIR-MN in Minneapolis receives an anonymous letter including calls to “eradicate Muslims” and the assertion that “a new crusade starts now.”
September 4, 2015 – Marlondejuan Guy of Ocala, FL, is given a letter by his managers at the local Denny’s telling him to remove his kufi or face termination of his employment. He regularly walks out of 7 and a half-hour shifts with less than $25.
September 4, 2015 – 3 people burn a cross into the front lawn of a mosque in Waterport, NY.
September 6, 2015 – A school board member in Columbia Heights, MN, comments on Facebook making derogatory comments about Muslims, saying they leave “powder on the toilet seat” before deleting the comment and denying that it was made at all.
September 8, 2015 – 28 year-old Mohamed Ibrahim of Shreveport, LA, is shot and killed by an officer after crashing during a police chase, despite the fact that his family had informed the police that he suffered from schizophrenia and was delusional at the time of the chase.
September 10, 2015 – 53 year-old Inderjit Singh Mukker, a Sikh, is left with a fractured cheekbone, lacerations, and other injuries after being repeatedly punched in the face on his way to the grocery store in Darien, IL. His assailant calls him a “terrorist” and “Bin Laden” while reaching into his car from another vehicle.
September 11, 2015 – Students at the Islamic School of Miami in Kendall, FL, are confused to find random objects in the parking lot of the school with no explanation. This happens twice more over the next three weeks; objects include a ceramic skull, a wooden cross, American flag sunglasses, and an unopened laptop, among other things, culminating in the evacuation of the students before police finally identify the culprit as 28 year-old Henri Thomas Borno.
September 11, 2015 – A 16 year-old Muslim student at Olathe East High School in Olathe, KS, is sent multiple messages harassing him via social media including Snapchats warning him not to come to school on 9/11. A teacher allows him to leave school early to escape the bullying, but it continues at the football game later that night.
September 16, 2015 – 14 year-old Ahmed Mohamed is arrested at MacArthur High School in Irving, TX, after a teacher calls in his his homemade clock to the police as a bomb. He is placed in handcuffs and taken to a juvenile detention center before being released to his parents.
September 16, 2015 – A mosque in Louisville, KY, is vandalized as hateful messages telling its members “Moslems – leave the Jews alone” and “This is for France.”
September 18, 2015 – Presidential-hopeful Donald Trump responds to a supporter’s question in Rochester, NH, about the “problem” of Muslims in the country not with a condemnation, but with the assertion that “We’re going to be looking at that and a lot of different things.”
September 20, 2015 – Speaking to NBC’s Chuck Todd from Sea Island, GA, Presidential-hopeful Ben Carson claims that Islam is inconsistent with the Constitution and that a Muslim should never be President of the United States.
September 22, 2015 – 15 year-old competitive boxer Amaiya Zafar is stopped from competing in the Golden Gloves at the Garden contest in Duluth, MN, because her hijab and modest attire are ostensibly in violation of the international federation’s strict dress code, which does not offer a religious accommodations.
September 24, 2015 – Members of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, OH, are harassed while going to Eid Al-Adha celebrations by 52 year-old James Remington, who calls them “child molesters” and “terrorists.” When stopped by an official, he tries to run the official over with his car, which is later found to contain a hatchet under the seat.
September 27, 2015 – Speaking about the religion of Middle Eastern refugees to CNN’s Jake Tapper from Washington, D.C., Presidential-hopeful Ben Carson states that a person’s religion is probable cause for searches and surveillance of communications.
Couldn’t find the proper email to submit an incident. This just happened yesterday at the University of Michigan: https://www.michigandaily.com/section/news/police-called-diag-over-chalk-messages-targeting-islam
That’s not a hate crime. Seriously, could you be any more hypersensitive?
There have been over 27,000 global terror attacks perpetrated by followers of Islam since 9/11. And terror attacks, unlike more than three quarters of the banal items on your list, actually result in a manifestly negative outcome for civilians.
Maybe if Muslims stopped blowing things up, things might get better for them
this is what you consider hate crimes? you want real hate crimes? go to the FBI and check out real hate crimes the majority of which are perpetrated on jews. you want real hate speech go to college campuses like harvard where they have BLM students calling for the extermination of white people. you want real hate speech go to front pagemag and check out the instances of jew hate on college campuses from muslim student organizations. my pet peeve is when muslims play the victim card and don’t examine their own communities racial, religious and ethnic hatred.
I love how they describe these incidents as “attacks”. All of these incidents really are comparable to the attacks in Paris and Brussels, aren’t they? Death Toll zero, but hundreds of feelings hurt and dozens of safe spaces irreparably violated.