In just ten days after last month's election the Southern Poverty Law Center counted more than 850 incidents of hate and intimidation, many of them against Muslim-Americans. The FBI found hate crimes against Muslims rose by nearly 70 percent in 2015. Civil rights groups fear that could go even higher under a Trump administration bent on tightening borders, beefing up surveillance, and waging an ideological war on quote "radical Islam." We hear what Muslim Americans have been facing, whether cases of harassment have been inflated in the media, and what's being done to defuse tensions after a divisive election.
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Guests:
- A.C. Thompson - ProPublica - @propublica
- Laila Alawa - The Tempest - @lulainlife
- Eli Lake - Bloomberg View - @EliLake
- Corey Saylor - Council on American-Islamic Relations - @CAIRNational