Lynch will visit mosque in Steling, on Monday.
As hate crimes targeting Muslims increase in the United States, and talk of a Muslim Registry continues to be a topic of discussion with the incoming administration, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch will visit a mosque in Virginia next week.
Lynch is scheduled to visit the All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center, aka The Adams Center, in Sterling on Monday morning, reported NBC News.
She will travel to New York the following day for a discussion with gay, lesbian and transgender youth at Harvey Milk High School, and to visit the Stonewall Inn and Stonewall National Monument.
FBI statistics released last month show reported hate crimes against Muslims rose by 67 percent in 2015 to their highest number since the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
There were 257 reported incidents of anti-Muslim bias in 2015, compared to 154 the year before.
Lynch has said the numbers should be “deeply sobering for all Americans.”
Many attendees of the mosque, which is one of the largest in the D.C. region, told News4 last month they worry Trump will ban Muslims from entering the country.
New York City has seen a spate of crimes targeting the Muslim community, including bias attacks on MTA and NYPD personnel. A widely reported attack on a Muslim woman wearing a hijab, on a subway train by three White men who shouted ‘Donald Trump’ at her and told her to get out of the country, has also seen Muslim advocacy organizations protest.