Record-high levels of Islamophobia in the United States in 2025 were fueled in part by Donald Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests and immigration policies, a Muslim advocacy group said Tuesday.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said it recorded 8,683 anti-Muslim and anti-Arab complaints in 2025, the highest since it began publishing data in 1996, compared to 8,658 in 2024.
Most complaints were about employment discrimination (12.7%), immigration and asylum (6.5%), hate incidents (6.4%), and travel discrimination like government watchlists and screenings (5.6%), CAIR's report noted.
Over the years, advocates have attributed Islamophobia to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and more recently to anti-immigration sentiment, white supremacy and the fallout of Israel's war in Gaza.
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