Human Rights Watch organization announced that the attacks and aggressions against Muslims and Arab-Americans in the USA increased by 1700% in 2001 following the attacks of September 11.

In a report issued in its headquarters in New York on Wednesday, the organization in defense of human rights stressed, according to official US statistics that some 481 attack cases were registered in 2001 verses just 28 in 2000.

Although no time schedule of the chronology of the incidents was given, however the person who drew the report indicated that the statistics issued by the local authorities show that the greater majority of the attacks took place after September 11.

The report which falls in 41 pages under the title of "we are not the enemy " were drawn following numerous consultation between officials in the police and representatives for the Arab and Islamic communities and victims of the attacks of September 11 in six major American states.

The report read that since September 11, atmospheres of doubts have cordoned the Arabs and Muslims in the USA. It added that the authorities can help to limit violence targeting them through making sure that the war against terrorism concentrate on criminal behaviors, rather than societies as a whole.

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