"Anti-Islamic Hate Crime Incidents" Chart Review

The Anti-Islamic Crime Incident chart shows the way crimes against Islam have increased or remained the same since 1995-2008. It remained at the same rate from 1995-2000 with the lowest rate of anti-Islamic crime being at 21 in 1998 and the highest in 1999 with 32, showing that crimes didn’t change much between those years. It wasn’t until 2001 that crime dramatically increased to 481. Then from 2001 to 2008 crime remained at higher levels than it ever did from 1995 to 2000. The lowest anti-Islamic crime incidents from 2001 to 2008 were 105 which were way higher than the lowest rate in 2000. What I find most shocking is how racism and crime against Islam was still at high levels even after 2001. There was a dramatic change in 2001. The shift was so big, that in my opinion, proves there was a reason for this change in number. It leave leave sme to think that 911 was the cause of these rates increasing. The 911 incident is what triggered as much anti-Islamic crimes in 2001. This chart shows that an unexpected shift can occur again the way it unexpectedly did in 2001. I find it interesting that since then the crime rate has never gone back down to the way it was before and I wonder if it ever will.