"There has been a pattern of escalating hate speech toward Muslims, with people saying that Islam is an evil religion," Mr. Marayati said.
"Moving forward with discovery will help us take steps to ensure our members' safety during this period of escalating hate speech, threats, and criminal activity".
Here, I believe the language must be powerful and violent because the people need to see a powerful president defending the country, not shaken, especially after the recent explosions and the fear they incited, along with the escalating international speeches, activism and pressures on Syria.
Ford was mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014, a tumultuous term of office which bounced between scandal and controversy, going beyond the usual political infighting of a city government, with an escalating pattern of offensive speech, erratic behaviour and public intoxication, and accusations of serious crimes including domestic violence, blackmail and assault.
She reveals in a follow up interview on artnet that fresh white panic over the American nightmare that is characteristic of the 'new normal': "a state of emergency — there were constant mass shootings, racist rallies filled with hate speech, and an escalating number of camera-phone videos of innocent black men being shot by police".
For some time, the former prime minister's occasional legacy-polishing international speeches have been escalating into more serious and frequent interventions.
An exhumation of the 1990 Judas Priest trial and a 1964 clip of a rousing student rights speech only heighten the film's escalating air of wild-eyed persecution.
Mrs. Clinton has been escalating those attacks in the run up to her speech.
At the time, reviewing that speech, I noted the rhetorical technique: "By escalating criticism, he knocked down a straw man, the oldest speechifying trick in the book".
After its third nuclear test in February, North Korea drastically escalated its hostile political speech against the United States and South Korea.
