(WASHINGTON, DC, 9/19/2012) -- The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today submitted written testimony for a Senate hearing on hate crimes and the threat of domestic extremism. The hearing was prompted by the national string of violent and deadly attacks targeting Sikhs and American Muslims and their institutions and houses of worship. Today's hearing by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights is chaired by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL). A coalition of some 150 organizations, led by the Sikh Coalition, requested the hearing after the horrific murders of Sikh worshippers in Oak Creek, Wis. The testimony, submitted for the hearing by CAIR and published online, includes information on the rise of "107 anti-Muslim hate crimes in 2009 to 160 in 2010" and the "thirteen days in August, the days immediately after the shocking murders of Sikh worshippers in Wisconsin, [when] there were 8 incidents in which Muslim places of worship were targeted." SEE: CAIR's Written Testimony to Senate Hearing on Hate Crimes and the Threat of Domestic Extremism www.cair.com Anti-Muslim hate incidents detailed in CAIR's testimony include "shots [that were] fired at a mosque in Morton Grove and an acid bomb thrown at an Islamic school in Lombard, [Illinois]" and "a mosque [that] was burned to the ground in Joplin, Mo., vandals spray[ing] an Oklahoma mosque with paintballs, pigs legs [being] thrown at a mosque-site in California ...