(AP) An advocacy group is warning of increased Islamophobia after a New York man was charged with threatening the life of a Muslim congresswoman.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said Saturday it welcomes the FBI’s arrest this week of Patrick Carlineo Jr. but warned of “normalized hate speech.”
Carlineo was charged with placing a threatening call to the Washington office of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. His attorney declined to comment.
Omar is among the first of two Muslim women elected to Congress.
