Former Obama adviser's Islamophobic rant at NYC vendor goes viral, amidst growing anti-Muslim sentiment

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "Afify said the interaction between Seldowitz and the food vendor is not unique when compared to the reports of anti-Muslim harassment and violence the organization has responded to this year.
60% : The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said reports of anti-Muslim harassment have increased 216%.
60% : "When politicians and media networks use and uplift Islamophobic rhetoric in order to justify the ongoing killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza by the Israeli government, that lends itself directly to Islamophobic sentiment and therefore anti-Muslim incidents in the United States.
60% : "I would emphasize that it is not a unique example, but it is similar to the kinds of anti-Muslim rhetoric incidents that we've seen across the country," Afify said.
54% : CAIR received more than 1,200 reports of anti-Muslim incidents from Oct. 7 to Nov. 4, which the organization said represents a 216% increase in reports compared to last year.
44% : In the last six weeks, Muslim American victims of violent hate crimes have made national headlines, including a 6-year-old Palestinian stabbed 36 times and killed in Chicago, the fatal assault of Talat J. Khan, a Muslim pediatrician in Texas, an Arab Muslim Stanford University student was sent to the hospital after a hit and run on campus and threats to people wearing Palestinian clothing in public.
42% : In an apology shared with City & State New York following the backlash from the videos, Seldowitz said he didn't consider himself an "Islamophobic guy.""If I had to do it all over again, I would not have raised the religious aspect," he told City & State.
37% : More than 13,000 people have been killed in Gaza since October 7, according to the United Nations.
37% : At the same time, reports of anti-semitic hate in the US are also on the rise.

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