Anti-Islamic Hate crime incident

A graph from the Southern Poverty Law Center shows the number of anti-Islamic hate crimes from the year 1995 to 2008; starting from zero to five hundred. Though there were Anti-Islamic hate crime incidents throughout time but it sky rocketed the year of 2001. That’s the year when 9/11 happened; it is understandable why the Anti-Islamic hate crimes increased that year. It is told that the reason behind 9/11 were Muslims. So the hate for the Muslims came out during that year causing all the hate crimes against the Muslims. Zeitoun might have been a victim of the Anti-Islamic Hate; because he is Muslim it was easy to target him. I’d say that because he was in New Orleans helping people in need and trying to save his business and property. There could not be any other reason to detain him but for the hate that the people had for the Muslims. The confusing thing about this graph was that it did not indicate what part of the country it was showing from.