Muslims and African Americans have been facing more profiling after the September 11 attacks in the United States, since many Americans are unaware of the acts of terror carried out by their own government, says a human rights activist.
According to an American Muslim advocacy group, within the past six months alone, eleven racial and religious profiling incidents against Muslim passengers have been reported, including five since April 1.
Passengers have recently been removed from flights for, among other reasons, speaking Arabic, completing a math equation that was mistaken for a terror plot, or “staring at” a flight attendant, the group said.
In each case, police and airline officials eventually concluded that the individuals posed no threat to the airliner or its passengers.
Mustafa Ansari, an international lawyer in Atlanta told Press TV on Saturday that the “attacks on Muslims and African Americans on public transportation have increased in the United States because we have an extremely ignorant population.”
He said most people in the US are not well informed by the media that their own government goes into other countries and bombs civilians.
The activist said the Americans have to be enlightened about the 'real terrorism' and that it is their own government which is “supplying arms" and giving support to terrorists.
The comments come as reports show Islamophobia has recently spiked in the US following last year's terrorist shootings in California and Paris.
Anti-Islam rhetoric has also hit the US presidential election of 2016, with GOP candidate Donald Trump creating a furor in the country and around the world by proposing a total and complete ban against Muslims from entering the US.
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