Original sentence: According to Benn and Jawad, Islamophobia has increased since Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa inciting muslims to attempt to murder Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses and the September 11 attacks
Edited sentence: "  It is likely that Hooper is referring to mainstream news coverage of ISIS.According to Benn and Jawad, Islamophobia has increased since Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa inciting muslims to attempt to murder Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses, the September 11 attacks and the rise of the Islamic State or Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).Although Malik may believe that Muslims are not under attack, it is no coincidence that anti-Muslim hate crimes have increased after 9/11.As journalist Julian Burnside states, "Of course Muslims are an easy target: Islamic State (ISIS) is doing a pretty bad PR job for Islam".Ibrahim Hooper, the communications director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations attributes the spike in recent anti-Muslim attacks to the Charlie Hedbo attacks, as well as news coverage  of "...'radical Islam' being on the news recently.Muslims are now the most targeted group for hate crimes in America, after Jews.While annual anti-Muslim hate crimes often numbered below 50 before 2001, they now average around 150