United States of Anti-Muslim Hate

​​​​​In December 2015, a severed pig’s head appeared at the doorstep of the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society. In September 2016, the police chief of Gurley, Alabama, posted a picture on Facebook of a box of bullets, with the note: “100 more bacon grease covered bullets in the box! This relaxes me so!!” In December that year, a man assaulted a 16-year-old Muslim boy in Brooklyn. When his mom, an off-duty NYPD officer who wears a hijab, came to his defense, the attacker called her an “ISIS bitch” and threatened to cut her throat. In January 2018, a Boise, Idaho, State lawmaker re-introduced a bill that banned “foreign law” for the third time. Originally, he had included supporting material with definitions of Sharia law to clarify his intent.

These are just a handful of the 600 anti-Muslim incidents that have taken place between 2012 and the present. They are all documented in a new data visualization project by New America—a non-partisan, nonprofit think tank.