A man in Houston, Texas, was shot and wounded after an assailant accused him of "blowing up the country" and four immigrants were shot and killed by a man named Larme Price, an American serial killer who confessed to murdering them to take revenge; Price said he was motivated by a desire to kill people of Arab descent after the September 11 attacks, which had been carried out by al-Qaeda in 2001.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brought charges against NCL America Inc., alleging that the company had discriminated against seven crew members with Middle East backgrounds.
The suit filed on behalf of the employees, stated that the discrimination led to the plaintiffs losing their jobs aboard the cruise ship Pride of Aloha.
The 2006 lawsuit had the company deny the allegations, refusing to accept that it had acted improperly in firing the seven Middle Eastern crew members.
"[5][6]After the Boston Marathon bombing, before the perpetrators Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev—both Chechens—were identified, several young men, mostly of South Asian or Middle Eastern descent, were convicted in the court of public opinion.
[8] A clearer picture of the impact of these events on Sydney's Muslim, Arabic, and Middle Eastern population emerged from data collected from a hotline between September 12, 2001, and November 11, 2001, by the Community Relations Commission for a Multicultural NSW, during which time 248 incidents were logged.
Waving Australian flags, and singing Waltzing Matilda and Australia's national anthem, the mob verbally abused and physically assaulted anyone of Middle Eastern appearance.
[10] One victim recalled how the violence erupted when a man deemed to be "of Middle Eastern appearance" was walking along the beachfront with his girlfriend and "two girls turned around and screamed ... 'get off our f__king beaches' [and then] the whole street turned on them"[10] The riots put the spotlight on two segments of Sydney's population (the white, Anglo-Celtic majority and a Middle Eastern minority) and two parts of the city: the Sutherland Shire Local Government Area (LGA), located in Sydney's southern suburbs where Cronulla Beach is located (known as the Shire); and the Canterbury and Bankstown LGAs, located in south-western Sydney, where most of the city's Lebanese and other Middle Eastern immigrants live.
[8] In one incident, two young men of Middle Eastern appearance, on their way for a swim, were mobbed and beaten on a train carriage, with both responding police officers and a nearby press photographer fearing there would be a killing.
[14][15][16] Ümit Özdağ, the former deputy Chairman of the Good Party, warned that Turkey risked becoming "a Middle Eastern country" because of the influx of refugees.