Hawzah News Agency- The report, issued by the Southern Poverty Law Center on Wednesday, credited “incendiary rhetoric” of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign with the rise in anti-Muslim hate in the country.

"۲۰۱۶ was an unprecedented year for hate,” said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-leaning non-profit that tracks extremist groups.

The report said several senior White House officials, including Steve Bannon, Steven Miller, and Kellyanne Conway, are “serious anti-Muslim ideologues.”

“It’s hardly like the departure of Michael Flynn is going to mitigate the really serious onslaught directed at American Muslims,” Potok said.

He was referring to the former national security adviser, who resigned on Monday. He had made several anti-Muslim statements. Flynn said in August that “Islamism” was a “vicious cancer” in body of all Muslims and had “to be excised.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center report also found that there are now more than 900 active hate groups across the US, ranging from neo-Nazi groups to racist black separatist organizations.

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