“According to CAIR Action, a political advocacy arm of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, over 6,200 Islamophobic posts flooded social media platforms, with 127 of them being serious enough to be classified as violent or threatening in nature….CAIR Action’s executive director, Basim Elkarra, urged elected officials from both parties to take a stand: “Islamophobia must be condemned without hesitation or qualification,” he said.
