Racial Profiling in regards to Muslims

The chart "Anti Islamic Hate Incidents, 1995-2008" demonstrates how hate crimes against people of Islamic origin contrasts between those specific time periods. It also shows the rise of hate crimes throughout the 2000's. This data is important because it shows how the rise of the incidents affected the Muslim people throughout the years and how racial profiling affected them too. This chart ties to the events of 9/11 and how racial profling and hate crimes increased due to the fact that the perpetrators of the horrendous act were muslim themselves. This act of terror shed a very judgmental and negative light on Muslims around the world, even though it was an isolated act in which only a few Muslims were involved. In contrast, Muslims are very peaceful people and do not want to cause any harm to Americans. But as the the group Al-Qaeda carried out the act, Muslims around the world had to pay and suffer through humiliation caused by Al-Qaeda and withstood racial incidents since then. Although racial tension between Americans and Muslims have lessened since the incident, one cannot help but wonder when we will be truly be able to accept them.