“I told myself I wasn’t going to be one of those cases that got abandoned,” Camara told HuffPost. In recent years anti-Muslim hate crimes have soared in New York and in the U.S. The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations documented a 74% increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes in the state since 2016. The U.S. saw a 17% rise in hate crimes last year, with Muslim individuals being the target of over 18% of religiously motivated hate crimes. “We have such a clear case of not only a crime being committed, but of a hate crime taking place,” Mohamed said.

Source: Huffington Post June 11, 2019 19:14 UTC