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An NYPD patrol car is parked outside a synagogue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

An increase in harassment against Jewish and Muslim Americans has been reported since Hamas attacks

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Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, poses with books that have been the subject of complaints from parents on Dec. 16, 2021, in Salt Lake City. With legislators in Florida barring even the mention of being gay in classrooms and similar restrictions being considered in other states, books with LGBTQ+ themes remain the most likely targets of bans or attempted bans at public schools and libraries around the country, according to a new report Monday, April 24, 2023. Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir “Gender Queer,” was the most “challenged” book of 2022, the second consecutive year it has topped the list. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) **FILE**

Liberal school district sued for trying to ‘disrupt thinking’ on traditional gender views

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Books are displayed at the Banned Book Library at American Stage in St. Petersburg, Fla., Feb. 18, 2023. Activists in Louisiana are voicing concerns over a bill advancing in the GOP-controlled House to bar children and teens from accessing public library books deemed “sexually explicit,” saying the proposal could be used to target LGBTQ+ content. (Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times via AP, File)

Muslims seek apology from Democrat for linking them to ‘White supremacists’ over LGBTQ books

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden, second from left, on stage with, from right, Talib M. Shareef, President and Imam of the historic, Nation's Mosque, Masjid Muhammad in Washington, first lady Jill Biden, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, looks at the guests during a reception to celebrate Eid al-Fitr in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Muslim group demands Biden apologize to mayor blocked from White House’s Eid al-Fitr celebration

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Muslims pray during Friday prayers at Al-Azhar mosque, the Sunni Muslim world's premier Islamic institution, during Ramadan, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, April 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

CAIR says Muslim bias complaints return to pre-Trump levels

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this May 16, 2008 file photo, Southwest Airlines jets are seen parked at their gates at Baltimore Washington International Airport in Baltimore, Md. Southwest Airlines will reduce flights for the rest of the year as it tries to restore an operation that stumbled over the summer and now faces lower demand because of the rise in coronavirus cases. Southwest said Thursday, AUg. 26, 2021 it will cut its September schedule by 27 flights a day, or less than 1%, and chop 162 flights a day, or 4.5% of the schedule, from early October through Nov. 5. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, file)

Muslim claims Southwest Airlines fired him from BWI job over religious request

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, speaks during a news conference at CAIR-MN office, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, in Minneapolis. A Hamline University lecturer showed a painting of the Prophet Muhammad and Aram Wedatalla, left, a Hamline University senior and the president of Muslim Student Association (MSA), was one of the students in the class when the image was displayed. (Kerem Yücel/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

Muslim group defends Minnesota professor who showed Muhammad images in class

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., questions CDC Principal Deputy Secretary Dr. Anne Schuchat as she speaks before a House Oversight subcommittee hearing on lung disease and e-cigarettes on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

CAIR accuses Democratic lawmakers of Islamophobia for criticizing Rep. Tlaib’s anti-Israel remarks

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Taliban fighters hold their flag as they celebrate one year since they seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. The Taliban marked the first-year anniversary of their takeover after the country's western-backed government fled and the Afghan military crumbled in the face of the insurgents' advance. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Professor who beat lawsuit over his Islamic terrorism quiz takes victory lap over cancel culture

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

This Jan. 14, 2013, file photo shows a gavel sitting on a desk inside a courtroom. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Federal court rejects Muslim student’s lawsuit over controversial quiz about Islamic terrorism

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Romin Iqbal of the Council on American-Islamic Relations speaks during a news conference at CAIR-Columbus headquarters in Dublin, Ohio on July 26, 2018. An Ohio chapter of the nation's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization has fired Romin Iqbal for ethical and professional breaches that it says include a yearslong secret association with a group that has promoted anti-Muslim views. (Brooke LaValley/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

Muslim org fires leader for working with anti-Muslim group

By Julie Carr Smyth - Associated Press

In this June 2, 2021, file photo, Palestinians attend a rally organized by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Muslim advocacy group accuses College Democrats of ‘Islamophobia’

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times