Bias against Muslims in the workplace soared in the past decade, jumping 180% to 796 complaints nationally last year, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Muslims make up less than 1% of the U.S. population, but 21% of all religious bias cases at work.

The spike is one illustration of how Muslims and Arab Americans have increasingly faced bias in the post-9/11 era. Fifty-five percent of Muslim Americans say that being a Muslim in the U.S. has become more difficult since Sept. 11, 2001, according to a Pew Research Center survey released last week.

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