Threats of an Anti-Muslim Holocaust

Rasa - This Week in Hate tracks hate crimes and harassment around the country since the election of Donald Trump. The Southern Poverty Law Center and other groups are keeping detailed counts of harassment and abuse. We will regularly present a selection of incidents to show the scope of the problem. This article, the first in the series, includes incidents reported in the last two weeks.

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Date: 30 November 2016 - 23:23

RNA - This Week in Hate tracks hate crimes and harassment around the country since the election of Donald Trump. The Southern Poverty Law Center and other groups are keeping detailed counts of harassment and abuse. We will regularly present a selection of incidents to show the scope of the problem. This article, the first in the series, includes incidents reported in the last two weeks.

• In the last week, three mosques in California and one in Georgia have received letters threatening that Donald Trump “is going to do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the Jews.” The letters were signed “Americans for a Better Way.”

• Last week, a passenger on a Delta flight began shouting, “Donald Trump”and asked, “We got some Hillary bitches on here?”

• In Astoria, Queens, on Nov. 17, an Arab-American Uber driver recorded a video of another driver shouting at him that “Trump is president” and “they’ll deport you soon.”

• At a Smith’s supermarket in Albuquerque, N.M., on Nov. 23, a woman began shouting Islamophobic abuse at a shopper wearing a hijab.Employees removed the shouting woman from the store, but she waited in the parking lot for the woman in the hijab to emerge. Eventually, employees escorted the woman in the hijab to her car.

• At Collins Hill High School in Gwinnett County, Ga., swastikas, racist slurs, the name “Trump” and the message “build a wall” were spray-painted on school buildings and sidewalks. The vandalism was discovered on Nov. 22.

• Also on Nov. 22, employees at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven, Conn., found swastikas and references to Mr. Trump spray-painted on the school’s athletic complex.

• In Bangor, Me., on Nov. 18, an African-American man was punched and pushed to the ground. Afterward, his attacker said he should watch out, because Mr. Trump could deport him. Police have arrested a suspect in the case.

• In Denver, on Nov. 16, a transgender woman discovered that her car had been vandalized with slurs, a swastika and the word “die.” She had previously written the messages “#NotMyPresident” and “Love Trumps Hate” on the windows.

• Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn was vandalized with swastikas and the words “Go Trump” on Nov. 18. The park was named for a member of the band the Beastie Boys who died of cancer in 2012.

• On Nov. 17, a New York subway rider noticed a swastika drawn inside a B train car. Riders have also seen swastikas on the 1 train.

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