While it draws heavily on news accounts and public records, center officials said it was the most comprehensive compilation of statements and events showing a pattern of hate crimes in Suffolk that were at least tacitly condoned — if not actively encouraged — by some local leaders.
Without comprehensive action, this pattern of hate will keep repeating itself.
"Unfortunately, the recent attack on a scarved Muslim woman this week fits into a larger pattern of hate in Milwaukee and around the country," MMWC President Janan Najeeb said in a statement.
At its occasional best, "Nerve" functions as a regular mirror, faithfully reproducing the Internet's patterns of love, hate, and attention.
Until Woodrow meets a girl, falls in love, gets a gang and journeys into shifting patterns of love, hate, betrayal, infidelity and a bit of violence -- basically everyday fantasy life in post-millennial America.
"There has been a pattern of escalating hate speech toward Muslims, with people saying that Islam is an evil religion," Mr. Marayati said.
He cited a pattern "of neighborhood hate crimes against Muslims," including egg-throwing, tire slashings and racial taunts during March and April this year, even though the restaurant is popular with the large Muslim American population in Orange County as well as tourists and students visiting from the Middle East.
The data set is one of the largest of its kind in the UK and therefore presents a unique opportunity to explore patterns of reporting across different types of hate crimes/incidents through a system designed to go beyond criminal justice responses.
Though the shootings may never be formally classified as hate crimes, they take place within a broader climate of hate violence and patterns of injustice experienced through racial profiling, surveillance, detention and deportation targeting Muslims and others similarly stereotyped as foreign and suspect.
It's a pathos machine, pumping out random patterns of capital letter feelings (HATE-LOVE-JOY-PAIN) that come over the two sets of supporters like a biblical plague.
