A prominent American Muslim civil liberties group says it recorded a nearly 600 percent rise in hate crimes targeting Muslims over the past three years an increase the organization attributes to a presidential election cycle rife with anti-Muslim animus.

In a report released Tuesday called The Empowerment of Hate , the Council on American-Islamic Relations says it recorded over 2,200 anti-Muslim bias incidents in 2016, a 57 percent increase from the year before.

Among those 2,200 incidents last year were 260 anti-Muslim hate crimes, the report states. Thats a 44 percent rise from 2015, when CAIR counted 180 hate crimes, and a staggering 584 percent increase from 2014, when the group counted just 38 hate crimes.