Hate crimes against Muslims spike after every terrorist attack.

Evidence

In this new racial terrain, Muslims fear for their safety. Muslim American women who wore the hijab told me they were frightened to leave the house out of fear for their safety. Lori Peek (2012) shows that Muslim women who wear the hijab were afraid for their safety immediately after 9/11. In the years since 9/11, any time a terrorist attack has occurred in Europe or in the United States, the Muslim community has had to brace itself for anti-Muslim backlash, since hate crimes against Muslims spike afterward. Immediately after the Boston Marathon bombing, a Muslim woman who wears the hijab was physically attacked by a man in Boston. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 354

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing the Peek 2012 citation and the hate-crime spike data — the reader may want to cite specific numbers.
• XREF: connects to: Hate crimes spike against anyone who appears Muslim after every crisis