A group of over two dozen US lawmakers have written to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, urging him to appoint a special envoy to combat the alleged rise in attacks against the Muslim community in different parts of the world including China, India and Myanmar.
Terming Islamophobia a “global problem”, the lawmakers, in their letter written on Wednesday, called for a comprehensive strategy for establishing US leadership in combating it worldwide.
They also suggested that state-sponsored Islamophobic violence and impunity for such acts be included in next year’s annual human rights reports. The letter comes after the new findings of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) showed that anti-Muslim hate was on the rise. They included over 500 documented complaints in 2021 alone.
These included a sudden rise in anti-mosque incidents in May and June involving cases of vandalism and an attempted stabbing, and several physical assaults targeting Muslim women wearing hijab (religious…