Thank you very much again for a very interesting question.
As mentioned by Dr. Pirzada, our first recommendation is to create a national registry to record all hateful incidents involving Islamophobia and other forms of racial and religious discrimination. Why are we making this recommendation? We are all professionals and we are involved to a certain extent in policy-making. Our experience is that if you want to have informed decision-making on any issue, you first need to have the information in both quantitative terms as well as qualitative terms, because that is the only way for us to move forward.
Generally, as mentioned by other witnesses, victims of these hate crimes or of discrimination on a racial or religious basis are already suffering. They have lost self-esteem. They have lost self-confidence. Then we put them through the process of going through these complaints through law enforcement agencies. It is very painful for them. It is just like putting salt on their wounds. We need to have a better informal system in the form of some sort of national registry where they can dial in or log in and complain and record their report with all the facts and figures without going through any further harassment.