Response to Islamic Hate Chart

   The Chart I will interpret today consist of the data, Anti-Islamic Hate Crime Incidents from the year 1995-2008. The range of incidents in the graph begins at zero and ends at five hundred. The highest incidents occurred in 2001 with 481 hate crimes and the lowest being 21 hate crimes the year 1998. Another important pattern that the graph clearly signals is the significant increase of hate crimes after the year 2001. The data is important because it successfully analyzes the relationship between events and race oppression. I would imagine that the significant increase in hate crimes are contributed by circumstances that involve stereotype misunderstanding. To make an important connection this chart relates to the book Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, when Kathy shares her experience after 9/11.  Kathy becomes a target for ignorance and ridicule because her beliefs, and traditions for wearing a hijab in public automatically deem her different. If this chart was from the United States I believe that the increase of hate crimes is because our involvement in foreign affairs in locations such as Europe.  The only critique I would like to share includes the idea of adding with in the chart information such as what continent this fact derived from. This will provide the reader the ability to compare data with other continents.