Chart blog

Hello! My name is Maryem Shalaby and I am writing this blog to explain the graph on shown to us and posted on our Professor's blog. The graph illustrates the amount, (by numbers) of anti-Islamic hate crimes that have occurred between the years 1995 and 2008. The numbers on the bottom are the years starting from 1995 through 2008 at the right end, while the numbers on the vertical axes are the numbers of incidents that have occurred in intervals of 50. As we can see, the highest amount of incidents occurred in 2001, (which is no surprise) with 481 incidents . The chart shows us that there were very few anti-Islamic hate crimes that occurred before 2001, and although they have dropped since then, they are still relatively high compared to post-2001. The trend starts out very low, then jumps up to 481, and then stays around the 105-156 range from 2002-2008. This is very important information because it  tells us that racial/religious discrimination does actually exist. We can link this chart to the book "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers. I would consider what happened to Zeitoun an anti-Islamic hate crime because he was targeted because of his racial background, not because he was actually wrong or at fault for committing any type of crime. The problem with this chart is it doesn't explain or show where these statistics apply? Its missing information about if this is in a specific state or if these numbers represent all the anti-Islamic hate crimes on a national level.