Islamophobia on college campuses

Islamophobia is not a new concept nor is it a minor problem. Ever since September 11th occurred Muslims have been treated inhumanely and unjustly. A recent study done by CAIR-California — where statistics indicate that over half of Muslim students under the age of 18 have experienced some sort of religious-based bullying. It has certainly increased during this year’s election with presidential candidates publicly saying islamophobic comments. With presidential candidates saying they would ban Muslims from the United States. For our final project, we’ve chosen to research this topic but on a smaller scale. We decided to just focus on college campuses and see how prominent the problem is.

In ONLY the first week of April, six islamophobic incidents occurred on college campuses. At Idaho State University anti-Muslim cds were put under the windshields wipers of cars.The videos were of a well known hatred group in the U.K and spreading insanely horrible rhetorics about Muslim. In University of Michigan, which has decent amount of Muslims, chalk reading #StopIslam & #Trump2016 were in front of a common area. At the University of Massachusetts graffiti reading “Stop Islam” were found at the Fine Arts Building.