Wired has a disheartening article on the explosion of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate speech on the Web:
As the volume of anti-Arab hate speech on the Internet cranked to full blast Wednesday, U.S. Muslims reported rampant harassment on- and offline. Although the U.S. government has yet to finger a perpetrator in Tuesday\’s attack, several lines of investigation point to the involvement of an Arab country. Now America\’s estimated 7 million Muslims are bracing for the backlash. \”We\’ve got reports from all over the country,\” said Joshua Salaam, the Civil Rights coordinator for the Council on American Islamic Relations, a nonprofit group dedicated to promoting a positive image of Muslims in America. \”People are reporting stuff to us from chat rooms that is absolutely hateful. Our own website has been bombarded with death threats.\”
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