Islamophobia Concern in US after California Shooting Incident

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Alwaght- Muslims in the United States are facing a new wave of Islamophobia following the recent mass shooting in California.
On Wednesday, a couple armed with rifles and handguns attacked a center for people with developmental disabilities in San Bernardino, California, killing at least 14 people and wounding 21 others in the deadliest mass shooting in the United States in three years.
Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27, were killed in a shootout with police after Wednesday's mass shooting. The New York Post claimed on Friday that Tashfeen Malik pledged her allegiance to the ISIS terrorist group on an account with a different name before she and her husband, Syed Farook, carried out the attack. “Investigators believe this is ISIS-inspired. She pledged her allegiance to al-Baghdadi,” a source briefed on the matter told The Post.
Muslims all across the US are now worried that the allegations about the shooters’ past bring more discrimination upon them.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate as a hate crime a phone threat to a Virginia mosque made in the wake of yesterday’s deadly shooting spree in San Bernardino, Calif.
The Manassas Mosque in Manassas, Va., received the threat on its voice mail last night. A caller claiming to represent the “Jewish Defense League” referred to the California killings and said that the group “will do to your people what you did to them.”
“Just as we condemn the horrific killings in San Bernardino, we as a nation must repudiate threats to all American houses of worship,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. “We call on state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate this threat as a hate crime and to bring the perpetrator to justice.”
Last week CAIR released an initial report on the unprecedented backlash and discrimination targeting the nation's Muslim community since the November 13 terror attacks in Paris.
CAIR notes that it has received more reports about acts of Islamophobic discrimination, intimidation, threats, and violence targeting American Muslims (or those perceived to be Muslim) and Islamic institutions in the past week-and-a-half than during any other limited period of time since the 9/11 terror attacks.

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