From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

2017, a new year of fear.

I'm Barbara Bogue sitting in for Warran Alney, and this is To the Point.

In just 10 days after last month's election, the Southern

Poverty Law Center counted more than 850 incidents of hate and intimidation, many of them

against Muslim Americans. The FBI found hate crimes against Muslims rose by nearly 70% in 2015.

Civil rights groups fear that could go even higher under a Trump administration bent on tightening borders, beefing up surveillance, and waging an ideological war on, quote, radical Islam.

We'll hear what Muslim Americans have been facing, whether cases of harassment have been inflated, and what's being done to diffuse tensions.

And on today's talking point, Americans are less charitable than we used to be.

We'll find out why. First, the news.

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This is To The Point. I'm Barbara Bogavin for Warren Allney, and it's nice to have you with us this holiday week.

Just ahead, reports of anti-Muslim harassment and intimidation have risen sharply since November's election,

and the FBI tracked nearly a 70% increase in hate crimes

against Muslims during the ramping up of the presidential campaign. What will next year bring,

with an administration focused on heightened security, tighter borders, and prone to a harsher

rhetoric on terrorism? And later, on today's talking point, progressive organizations say donations

are way up since the election.

But overall, Americans are giving less to charity than just a decade ago.

Who and why people give.

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