After 27 years climbing a mountain of Islamophobic bias, America appears to have taken a step back. The intake staff of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organisation, received 5,156 total complaints in 2022. This represents a 23 percent decrease since the previous year.It is the first recorded decline since we started tracking such data in 1995. Perhaps, we have summitted the mountaintop of bias directed at American Muslims, and while we are still way up where the eagles fly, we are, nevertheless, entitled to some hope.Complaints about law enforcement and government overreach dropped by 38 percent. Given that we reported a 32 percent total complaint increase in the first year of the Trump presidency, the change of administration in Washington may have played a role. The fallout of the January 6 insurrection in 2022, during which the seat of the US Congress was ransacked, may have contributed as well.
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