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New study finds Florida is a hot spot for Islamophobia
New study finds Florida is a hot spot for IslamophobiaBy TONY MARRERO
(Tampa Bay) Times Staff Writer Published: June 29, 2016
TAMPA — An Inverness gun store owner declares his shop a “Muslim-free zone.”
A Seminole man calls two Pinellas County mosques and threatens to firebomb the buildings and shoot their occupants.
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These are some of the Florida examples in a new study that concludes hostility toward Muslims is on the rise in the United States. The state has emerged as a hot spot for Islamophobic activity, according to the study by the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California at Berkeley and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
“For the mere fact of their religious beliefs, their names, their skin colors and whether they wear something on their head or not, people are being attacked,” Laila Abdelaziz, legislative and government affairs director with the Council on American-Islamic Relation in Florida, said Tuesday at a news conference announcing the study’s findings.
A Seminole man calls two Pinellas County mosques and threatens to firebomb the buildings and shoot their occupants.
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These are some of the Florida examples in a new study that concludes hostility toward Muslims is on the rise in the United States. The state has emerged as a hot spot for Islamophobic activity, according to the study by the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California at Berkeley and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
“For the mere fact of their religious beliefs, their names, their skin colors and whether they wear something on their head or not, people are being attacked,” Laila Abdelaziz, legislative and government affairs director with the Council on American-Islamic Relation in Florida, said Tuesday at a news conference announcing the study’s findings.
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