Someone made a Twitter list of all the Islamophobic attacks in the last week

Published December 14th, 2015 - 10:04 GMT
The numbers are pretty depressing. (AFP/File)
The numbers are pretty depressing. (AFP/File)

If you've checked headlines lately, it probably won't come as much of a surprise that in the wake of the Paris and San Bernadino attacks, Islamophobia is on a violent rise. 

Between pig heads thrown in mosques and full-blown attacks on the streets, life for Muslims in the West is getting worse, and we haven't even started in on the aftermath of Donald Trump's comments.

Adding fuel to this fire is the rhetoric from the likes of Fox News and Daily Mirror—last month, CNN was also in hot water after telling Paris-based Collective Against Islamophobia that French Muslims should have done more to "identify those within its ranks...who are obviously training and preparing to carry out mass murder.” 

Yet, there are still those who deny these attacks keep happening, a quick Twitter search confirms that. So in case you still have doubts, there's now a running Twitter list of attacks against Muslims that have happened only since Dec. 7. British-Libyan photographer Mohammed Ismail lanuched the tally last week, here's how it began. 

 


As the tweet promised, Ismail went on to document every attack he could find here, and unsurprisingly, the list got a lot bigger pretty quickly. Here are a few examples, to see the full list, click on one of the tweets and scroll up.

  

Tags:San BernadinoParisTwitterCNNKu Klux KlanMohammed IsmailDonald Trump
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