The 2016 Election Is Making Islamophobia The Worst It Has Ever Been

Attacks against American Muslims are at peak levels this year, a phenomenon experts say is directly related to the widespread use of Islamophobic rhetoric by politicians during the 2016 campaign season — especially Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Since the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, France that triggered an unprecedented spike in Islamophobia in the United States, ThinkProgress has kept a running tally of anti-Muslim incidents across the country. We intentionally kept our threshold for an “incident” high, tracking only the most egregious cases — violent attacks, threats, assaults, protests, firings, airport profiling cases, and instances of vandalism perpetrated against American Muslims and their houses of worship.

Earlier this week, our tally exceeded 100 for the first time....
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