The number of hate crimes against Muslims have increased in the West in the past year.  The new year started with weaknesses in the legal system that made it difficult tohold the wrong- doers accountable. The newspaper refers to an article on the Datehookup site which stated that anti- Muslim assaults increased from 336 in 2012 to 500 in 2013.The article suggests the increase is due to the attack on UK soldier Lee Rigby. Tell Mama, a group which monitors anti-Muslim incidents, has recorded with 840 cases in 2013.  Read original article in English on Datehookup.com here (Shādī Jibrīl, al-Fath, Jan. 24, p. 9). Read original text in Arabic.