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At a hearing held yesterday, the chairperson of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reported a 150% increase in complaints filed in the past three months by Arab American, Muslims and Sikhs, over the same period a year ago. Arab and Muslim groups testified at the hearing that these numbers understate the job discrimination being experience---with many victims of discrimination afraid to go to a government agency at a time when the FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Services are investigating and arresting people with middle-eastern origins. An encouraging trend that came out during the meeting was the extremely low number of incidents reported at the many companies that communicated clear anti-harassment and discrimination policies to their employees in the wake of the attacks.