This quarterly report covers July through September 2026, a period in which anti-Muslim and anti-Arab rhetoric in the United States did not merely persist — it was professionalized, amplified by national media platforms, and aimed directly at Muslim Americans serving in, or running for, public office.
The broader climate is documented. CAIR, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization, recorded 8,683 civil rights complaints in 2025 — the highest single-year total since its first report in 1996. The FBI’s 2025 Uniform Crime Reporting data recorded 10,606 reported hate crime incidents nationwide, including 205 anti-Islamic (Muslim) incidents with 274 victims. Every figure and every case in the report carries a public source, listed in the references section.