Islamophobia is back on the rise in the U.S. despite cautious optimism in 2008 that post-Sept. 11 anti-Muslim sentiments had begun to decline, according to a report released Thursday by the University of California at Berkeley and a national Islamic rights group.
The authors of “Same Hate, New Target: Islamophobia and Its Impact in the United States 2009-10″ found that Americans’ favorable rating of Islam is only 30 percent — down 10 percentage points from November 2001, according to a Pew Research Center study.
“Same Hate, New Target,” which was co-sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, took a in-depth look at intolerant actions and discourse and provided recommendations for combating Islamophobia in the future.
“This report shows that Americans who embrace pluralism must act together to prevent Islamophobia from being accepted in mainstream society,” CAIR national legislative director Corey Saylor said in a statement.
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