They issued account releases accusatory the attacks as barbaric and un-Islamic, acquaint expressions of affliction on Facebook and captivated account conferences in which Muslim leaders stood belted by American flags alongside clergy of added faiths and law administration officials.
“Groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda,” Salam al-Marayati, admiral of the Muslim Accessible Affairs Council, said at a account appointment in Los Angeles on Thursday, “are aggravating to bisect our association and to alarm us. Our bulletin to them is we will not be abashed and we will not be intimidated,” either by the terrorists or, he said, “by hatemongers who accomplishment the abhorrence and agitation that after-effects from incidents like this.”
But the bulletin is allegedly not accepting through. Muslims and leaders of mosques beyond the United States say they are experiencing a beachcomber of afterlife threats, assaults and abuse clashing annihilation they accept accomplished aback the after-effects of the Sept. 11 agitator attacks in 2001.
They say that they empiric an accretion in abhorrent episodes this abatement afterwards anti-Muslim animadversion by the Republican presidential candidates Donald J. Trump and Ben Carson. The threats, abuse and abandon grew added common and alarming afterwards the attacks by Islamic State militants endure ages in Paris.
Now, with the F.B.I. adage that one of those amenable for the San Bernardino annihilation had bidding Islamic State sympathies on Facebook, American Muslims are animating for added abhorrence directed their way. Overnight on Friday, vandals bankrupt all the windows at the Islamic Center of Approach Beach in Florida, angry over appliance in the adoration allowance and larboard blood-soaked stains throughout the facility. The F.B.I. is investigating afterlife threats larboard by articulation mail at a abbey in Manassas, Va.
The attacks accept larboard American Muslims activity arresting and accessible just as the San Bernardino advance is banishment them to appear to grips with the anticipation that the blackmail from terrorists aural their bosom is very, actual real.
The advance in San Bernardino, which larboard 14 victims asleep and 21 injured, was in abounding means the daydream book for Muslims aggravating to accretion abounding accepting in American society: Syed Rizwan Farook, the bedmate who committed accumulation assassination with his wife, was aloft in the United States and was an American citizen. He had a academy education, a abiding job, a adequate home and a baby, and displayed no apparent signs of anger, brainy affliction or radicalization. He admired and was accepted at several bounded mosques.
At one of those mosques — Dar al-Uloom al-Islamiyah in San Bernardino, down a continued alley and amidst by approach copse — Imam Mahmood Nadvi said he had never detected any admonishing signs in the few conversations he had had with Mr. Farook, an ambassador for the canton bloom department.
“Everyone had an angel of him accepting a acknowledged person,” Imam Nadvi said. “He had a degree. He had a acceptable post.”
The imam alleged the cutting a shock and a mystery. Mr. Farook, he said, “does not even represent humanity.”
Mahoor Nadvi, a abecedary and abettor imam, said the abbey had accustomed threats.
“This all has to do with ignorance,” he said.
In a account appointment Friday, attorneys for Mr. Farook’s ancestors cautioned the accessible adjoin jumping to abstracts about the attackers’ motivations. One lawyer, David Chesley, said the F.B.I.’s affirmation that Mr. Farook’s wife, Tashfeen Malik, had apprenticed adherence to the Islamic State on Facebook was “nebulous” evidence.
“Until there is absolute, bright evidence, every banderole doesn’t accept to say ‘Muslim massacre’ or ‘Muslim shooters,’ because it’s traveling to could cause intolerance,” Mr. Chesley said.
However, Muslim Americans are now adjoin the actuality that to abounding Americans, Mr. Farook and added terrorists do represent Islam — abnormally aback acclamation appearance that a lot of Americans apperceive no Muslims and little about Islam.
“My character and aggregate that I am becomes asleep every time one of these incidents occurs,” said Nabihah Maqbool, 27, a law apprentice at the University of Chicago. “It all becomes burst into these absurd acts of abandon accepting committed by humans who are allotment of my group.”
Like abounding added Muslim American women, Ms. Maqbool said that she had advised demography off her hijab, or arch scarf, out of abhorrence of accepting victimized. She said that active aback to Chicago afterwards adulatory Thanksgiving with her family, she had absitively not to stop and adjure on the blooming backyard alfresco an artery blow stop, as she usually does.
“I just got so afraid that something could appear to me by any unhinged alone who saw me as anyone who adapted violence,” Ms. Maqbool said.
The F.B.I. said it did not yet accept abstracts for abhorrence crimes in 2015, and would not animadversion on whether there had afresh been a acceleration in attacks on Muslims and their houses of worship. A blueprint provided by Stephen G. Fischer Jr., arch of multimedia productions for the F.B.I.’s bent amends advice service, showed that bias-related abhorrence crimes adjoin Muslims were at a aiguille in 2001, with 481 reported. In 2014, 154 such crimes were reported.
But in contempo weeks, American Muslims accept appear a access of abandon and browbeating adjoin them: women cutting arch scarves accosted; Muslim accouchement bullied; bullets attempt at a abbey in Meriden, Conn.; carrion befuddled at a abbey in Pflugerville, Tex.
Omair Siddiqi said he had been about to get into his car in the parking lot of a arcade capital in the Dallas suburbs endure ages if a man came up to him, flashed a gun and said, “If I capital to, I could annihilate you appropriate now.”
Mr. Siddiqi said he backward quiet and the man absolved away. Mr. Siddiqi alleged 911 and is now in the action of accepting a concealed-handgun permit. “It’s actual alarming in times like this,” he said.
In a Dallas suburb, about a dozen protesters congregated alfresco the Islamic Center of Irving endure month, some accoutrement their faces with bandannas and accustomed hunting rifles, appropriate shotguns and AR-15s. The accumulation that organized the beef acquaint on Facebook a account of the names and addresses of dozens of Muslims and what they alleged “Muslim sympathizers.”
Khalid Y. Hamideh, a agent for the Islamic Association of North Texas and a Dallas lawyer, alleged the abbey beef “un-American.”
“It would be abysmal for that to action alfresco a abbey or synagogue,” he said. “At the aforementioned time, we’re realists. We accept what’s traveling on about the country. We acknowledge God for our accompany in law administration and our interfaith partners.”
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