Anti-Sharia legislation correlates with a 67 percent rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes.

Evidence

Needless to say, this rise in anti-Sharia legislation is directly impacting the physical safety of Arabs, Muslims, and/or South Asians. It is not the only factor, but it is doubtless a part of it. When legislation or legislators seek to repudiate a group’s belief system, you can bet that people are going to feel they have more of a green light to go after that group. For example, hate crimes against Muslims increased by 67 percent in 2015 according to FBI statistics—a year when many of these anti-Sharia bills were on the table. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 638

Categorization

• XREF: Legislative green-lighting of violence — a causal mechanism linking policy discourse to physical harm, ripe for the capstone. — connects to: Anti-Muslim hate incidents rose 57 percent in 2016 — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 117; German anti-Muslim hate crimes rose 87 percent in just two years — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 369; Anti-Shari’a bills converted private Islamophobia into state structural policy — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 306 (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 638

Related

• Anti-Muslim hate incidents rose 57 percent in 2016 (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-sharia legislation sought to criminalize all mosque attendance as terrorism (similarity 0.82)
• At least 120 anti-Sharia bills have been introduced across 42 US states since 2010. (similarity 0.82)
• German anti-Muslim hate crimes rose 87 percent in just two years (similarity 0.82)
• Recorded anti-Muslim hate crime hit all-time highs while under-reporting persists (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Sharia legislation spikes in pre-election years to mobilize conservative voters. (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-sharia bills sought to criminalize mosque attendance by defining Islam as ideology (similarity 0.80)
• Funded think tanks drafted template anti-Sharia laws making belief a felony (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Shari’a bills converted private Islamophobia into state structural policy (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-sharia legislation weaponizes real social problems into paranoid fantasy (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Shari’a bills converted private Islamophobia into state structural policy #expands (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 306