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• Jan. 24, 2007 – Newark, New Jersey
A mosque was set afire. The blaze appeared to have begun in coils of rope put on a back deck of the building.
• Feb. 20, 2007 – Ballard, Washington
A white man and a white woman allegedly used racial slurs against a Yemeni deli owner and his Yemeni employee and called them terrorists before assaulting the owner. Brian D. Lappin, 35, and Nichol A. Kirk, 25, were charged with malicious harassment under the state’s hate crime law.
• May 12, 2007 – Little Falls, New Jersey
David Liscio, 32, was charged with harassment, making terroristic threats and bias intimidation after he allegedly shouted racial slurs at a Latino Muslim woman.
• May 22, 2007 – Lynn Haven, Florida
Thomas E. Plaisted was charged with battery evidencing bias after he allegedly spit on a Muslim child and shoved another at a fast-food restaurant.
• June 23, 2007 – St. Cloud, Minnesota
Phillip Joseph Massa, 33, was charged with obstructing the legal process and fourth-degree gross misdemeanor assault motivated by bias after he allegedly assaulted a man of Muslim descent.
• June 29, 2007 – Nutley, New Jersey
Kerri A. Livesay, 34, was charged with simple assault and a bias crime after allegedly screaming curses and assaulting a teen wearing traditional Muslim garb at a store.
• July 6, 2007 – Sarasota, Florida
Anti-Islamic epithets were spray-painted on a Bosnian family's residence that was then set afire.
• July 13, 2007 – San Antonio, Texas
A Muslim family's vehicles were vandalized with messages telling them to move.
• July 30, 2007 – Shreveport, Louisiana
Russell Price, 22, a 16-year-old and a 14-year-old were charged with spray-painting profanity and drug symbols on an Islamic Association building.
• Aug. 6, 2007 – Glendale, Arizona
A chemical bomb was tossed from a car at a mosque. The bomb landed near two people associated with the Albanian American Islamic Center.
• July 26, 2007 – Corvallis, Oregon
Jesse J. Mason, 24, was arrested after allegedly throwing furniture and smashing a window at a residence of two men he believed were of Middle Eastern descent while yelling, “This is America — Arabs and al-Qaida out of the country.” Mason also allegedly had spit on the two men a few days earlier and made similar remarks in front of a bar.
• Sept. 11, 2007 – Tempe, Arizona
Michael Estes, 32, was charged with suspicion of disorderly conduct after he allegedly cursed at an imam at an Islamic community center and made other negative remarks to him on the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
• Sept. 15, 2007 – Matinecock, New York
An Iranian-American nail salon owner was allegedly beaten by two robbers who called her a “terrorist” and scrawled anti-Muslim messages on a mirror in her shop.
• Oct. 6, 2007 – Bakersfield, California
Two men allegedly entered the women's section of a mosque and yelled anti-Middle Eastern slurs such as “terrorists go home.” Later that night, about 10 people allegedly smashed windows and damaged cars at the mosque.
•Oct. 24, 2007 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Kia Reid, 35, a former hotel-catering manager who in October 2006 sent her Arab-American boss an anonymous note threatening her children and referring to 9/11, was sentenced to two years of probation.
• Jan. 14, 2008 – New Hyde Park, New York
A 63-year-old Sikh man was attacked outside his temple, allegedly by a man who yelled profanities and screamed, “Arab, go back to your country.” David Wood, 36, was second-degree assault as a hate crime, second- and third-degree assault and second-degree aggravated harassment.
• Jan. 22, 2008 – Blaine, Minnesota
Three men used bottles of combustible liquid to set a fire in a convenience store. The word “Arab” was also spray-painted on the building.
• March 11, 2008 – Hayward, California
Manuel Urango was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Alia Ansari, an Afghani-born mother of six. Ansari was killed allegedly because of her Muslim heritage.
• March 26, 2008 – Nashville, Tennessee
Eric Ian Baker, 32, Michael Corey Golden, 23, and Jonathan Edward Stone, 18, were indicted on federal civil rights charges for burning down an Islamic Center on Feb. 9, 2008. Stone and Baker reportedly identified themselves as followers of the white supremacist Christian Identity movement.
• May 22, 2008 – Rochester, Minnesota
Three teens were charged with bias crimes, including gross misdemeanor harassment, after they allegedly yelled racial slurs and spit on a person outside an Islamic Center.
• July 3, 2008 – Seattle, Washington
Edward Campbell, 42, was charged with one count of malicious harassment after he allegedly called a store clerk, whom he believed was Muslim, a terrorist and struck him on the head with a can of beer.
• Sept. 25, 2008 – Joplin, Missouri
A sign at the Islamic Society was set afire.
• Nov. 1, 2008 – Gaithersburg, Maryland
An Islamic Center was hit with 30 paintball blasts to its building.
• Jan. 1, 2009 – Miami, Florida
An Islamic school was sprayed with bullets.
• Jan. 1, 2009 – Oakland, Pennsylvania
An Islamic Center was vandalized.
• June 27, 2009 – Yermo, California
Ali Abdelhadi Mohd, 51, a native of Jordan, was found burned to death in his family's vacant house that had been set afire. Mohd was at the residence to clean anti-Arab and white supremacist graffiti that had been scrawled inside. A mosque on the family’s property also was set afire in 2007.
• July 1, 2009 – Seattle, Washington
Eric Lee Garner, 24, was charged with second-degree assault and malicious harassment for allegedly making anti-Muslim remarks and threatening to cut a woman and her infant.
• Aug. 20, 2009 – Smithtown, New York
Joseph Ballance, 23, was charged with aggravated harassment for allegedly attempting to run over two Muslim women at a gas station and threatening to kill them because of their religion.
• Sept. 8, 2009 – Ann Arbor, Michigan
A 16-year-old Muslim girl of Iraqi heritage was allegedly attacked on a school bus by a group of people who shouted ethnic slurs. Her brother was also allegedly attacked while coming to her defense.
• Sept. 8, 2009 – Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Nicholas T. Proffit, 32, was sentenced to three years in prison for vandalizing an Islamic Center in May.
• Nov. 7, 2009 – Tinley Park, Illinois
Valerie Kenney, 54, was charged with a hate crime for allegedly yanking the headscarf of a Muslim woman two days after the Fort Hood shootings.
• Nov. 9, 2009 – Farmingville, New York
A Muslim woman's home was burglarized, vandalized and defaced with graffiti.
• Nov. 22, 2009 – Kinsman, Illinois
Scott Finch and Luke Harty, both 32, were charged with aggravated battery for allegedly assaulting a Muslim man outside a tavern.
• Dec. 3, 2009 – Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Swastikas and a racial slur were spray-painted on a pickup truck belonging to a Muslim man of Jordanian descent.
• Dec. 8, 2009 – St. Cloud, Minnesota
Anti-Islamic cartoons featuring swastikas were left on utility poles, one of which was outside a store catering to Somali people.
A mosque was set afire. The blaze appeared to have begun in coils of rope put on a back deck of the building.
• Feb. 20, 2007 – Ballard, Washington
A white man and a white woman allegedly used racial slurs against a Yemeni deli owner and his Yemeni employee and called them terrorists before assaulting the owner. Brian D. Lappin, 35, and Nichol A. Kirk, 25, were charged with malicious harassment under the state’s hate crime law.
• May 12, 2007 – Little Falls, New Jersey
David Liscio, 32, was charged with harassment, making terroristic threats and bias intimidation after he allegedly shouted racial slurs at a Latino Muslim woman.
• May 22, 2007 – Lynn Haven, Florida
Thomas E. Plaisted was charged with battery evidencing bias after he allegedly spit on a Muslim child and shoved another at a fast-food restaurant.
• June 23, 2007 – St. Cloud, Minnesota
Phillip Joseph Massa, 33, was charged with obstructing the legal process and fourth-degree gross misdemeanor assault motivated by bias after he allegedly assaulted a man of Muslim descent.
• June 29, 2007 – Nutley, New Jersey
Kerri A. Livesay, 34, was charged with simple assault and a bias crime after allegedly screaming curses and assaulting a teen wearing traditional Muslim garb at a store.
• July 6, 2007 – Sarasota, Florida
Anti-Islamic epithets were spray-painted on a Bosnian family's residence that was then set afire.
• July 13, 2007 – San Antonio, Texas
A Muslim family's vehicles were vandalized with messages telling them to move.
• July 30, 2007 – Shreveport, Louisiana
Russell Price, 22, a 16-year-old and a 14-year-old were charged with spray-painting profanity and drug symbols on an Islamic Association building.
• Aug. 6, 2007 – Glendale, Arizona
A chemical bomb was tossed from a car at a mosque. The bomb landed near two people associated with the Albanian American Islamic Center.
• July 26, 2007 – Corvallis, Oregon
Jesse J. Mason, 24, was arrested after allegedly throwing furniture and smashing a window at a residence of two men he believed were of Middle Eastern descent while yelling, “This is America — Arabs and al-Qaida out of the country.” Mason also allegedly had spit on the two men a few days earlier and made similar remarks in front of a bar.
• Sept. 11, 2007 – Tempe, Arizona
Michael Estes, 32, was charged with suspicion of disorderly conduct after he allegedly cursed at an imam at an Islamic community center and made other negative remarks to him on the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
• Sept. 15, 2007 – Matinecock, New York
An Iranian-American nail salon owner was allegedly beaten by two robbers who called her a “terrorist” and scrawled anti-Muslim messages on a mirror in her shop.
• Oct. 6, 2007 – Bakersfield, California
Two men allegedly entered the women's section of a mosque and yelled anti-Middle Eastern slurs such as “terrorists go home.” Later that night, about 10 people allegedly smashed windows and damaged cars at the mosque.
•Oct. 24, 2007 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Kia Reid, 35, a former hotel-catering manager who in October 2006 sent her Arab-American boss an anonymous note threatening her children and referring to 9/11, was sentenced to two years of probation.
• Jan. 14, 2008 – New Hyde Park, New York
A 63-year-old Sikh man was attacked outside his temple, allegedly by a man who yelled profanities and screamed, “Arab, go back to your country.” David Wood, 36, was second-degree assault as a hate crime, second- and third-degree assault and second-degree aggravated harassment.
• Jan. 22, 2008 – Blaine, Minnesota
Three men used bottles of combustible liquid to set a fire in a convenience store. The word “Arab” was also spray-painted on the building.
• March 11, 2008 – Hayward, California
Manuel Urango was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Alia Ansari, an Afghani-born mother of six. Ansari was killed allegedly because of her Muslim heritage.
• March 26, 2008 – Nashville, Tennessee
Eric Ian Baker, 32, Michael Corey Golden, 23, and Jonathan Edward Stone, 18, were indicted on federal civil rights charges for burning down an Islamic Center on Feb. 9, 2008. Stone and Baker reportedly identified themselves as followers of the white supremacist Christian Identity movement.
• May 22, 2008 – Rochester, Minnesota
Three teens were charged with bias crimes, including gross misdemeanor harassment, after they allegedly yelled racial slurs and spit on a person outside an Islamic Center.
• July 3, 2008 – Seattle, Washington
Edward Campbell, 42, was charged with one count of malicious harassment after he allegedly called a store clerk, whom he believed was Muslim, a terrorist and struck him on the head with a can of beer.
• Sept. 25, 2008 – Joplin, Missouri
A sign at the Islamic Society was set afire.
• Nov. 1, 2008 – Gaithersburg, Maryland
An Islamic Center was hit with 30 paintball blasts to its building.
• Jan. 1, 2009 – Miami, Florida
An Islamic school was sprayed with bullets.
• Jan. 1, 2009 – Oakland, Pennsylvania
An Islamic Center was vandalized.
• June 27, 2009 – Yermo, California
Ali Abdelhadi Mohd, 51, a native of Jordan, was found burned to death in his family's vacant house that had been set afire. Mohd was at the residence to clean anti-Arab and white supremacist graffiti that had been scrawled inside. A mosque on the family’s property also was set afire in 2007.
• July 1, 2009 – Seattle, Washington
Eric Lee Garner, 24, was charged with second-degree assault and malicious harassment for allegedly making anti-Muslim remarks and threatening to cut a woman and her infant.
• Aug. 20, 2009 – Smithtown, New York
Joseph Ballance, 23, was charged with aggravated harassment for allegedly attempting to run over two Muslim women at a gas station and threatening to kill them because of their religion.
• Sept. 8, 2009 – Ann Arbor, Michigan
A 16-year-old Muslim girl of Iraqi heritage was allegedly attacked on a school bus by a group of people who shouted ethnic slurs. Her brother was also allegedly attacked while coming to her defense.
• Sept. 8, 2009 – Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Nicholas T. Proffit, 32, was sentenced to three years in prison for vandalizing an Islamic Center in May.
• Nov. 7, 2009 – Tinley Park, Illinois
Valerie Kenney, 54, was charged with a hate crime for allegedly yanking the headscarf of a Muslim woman two days after the Fort Hood shootings.
• Nov. 9, 2009 – Farmingville, New York
A Muslim woman's home was burglarized, vandalized and defaced with graffiti.
• Nov. 22, 2009 – Kinsman, Illinois
Scott Finch and Luke Harty, both 32, were charged with aggravated battery for allegedly assaulting a Muslim man outside a tavern.
• Dec. 3, 2009 – Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Swastikas and a racial slur were spray-painted on a pickup truck belonging to a Muslim man of Jordanian descent.
• Dec. 8, 2009 – St. Cloud, Minnesota
Anti-Islamic cartoons featuring swastikas were left on utility poles, one of which was outside a store catering to Somali people.