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Orange County Register – July 28, 2005
California Muslims report more hate incidents
By Ann Pepper,
Hate incidents reported by California Muslims increased by about 38 percent in 2004 over the previous year, the highest number of annual cases ever reported to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a 7-year-old Muslim civil-rights group.
At the same time, CAIR's annual report, released Wednesday in Anaheim, showed that, overall, the state's Muslims felt the law was more fairly applied to them in 2004.
Complaints of racial or religious profiling, verbal harassment or denial of service dropped from 32 percent of the cases reported in 2003 to 15 percent last year.
"We in no way want to portray, by sharing this information, that California Muslims feel under siege," said Ra'id Faraj, a CAIR spokesman.
"We view this report in many ways as positive," Faraj said. "That discriminatory application of the law has decreased is a tremendously positive thing." ……
http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/07/28/sections/local/local/article_613542.php
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