U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch poses for a group photo with members of All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center’s BEAT Choir. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

At a mosque in Virginia today, Attorney General Loretta Lynch spoke out against the spike in hate crime incidents across the country.

“All of us have seen the flurry of recent news reports about alleged hate crimes and harassment—from hijabs yanked off of women’s heads, to swastikas sprayed on the sides of synagogues, to slurs and epithets hurled in classrooms,” Lynch said in a speech at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society in Sterling, Va.

Just last week, the nation’s first Somali-American lawmaker says she was threatened in a D.C. cab by the driver, who called her ISIS and threatened to pull off her hijab.

But Lynch didn’t just focus on the incidents that have occurred since the election. Lynch pointed to statistics released in November from the FBI that showed a 6 percent overall increase in hate crimes in 2015, and a staggering 67 percent increase in anti-Muslim crimes.

“These incidents—and these statistics—should be of the deepest concern to every American,” said Lynch. “Because hate crimes don’t just target individuals. They tear at the fabric of our communities, and they also stain our dearest ideals and our nation’s very soul.”

Lynch pointed to work the DOJ was doing to combat hate crimes through the civil rights division, including prosecuting individuals for federal hate crimes, investigating discrimination against proposed mosques and Islamic centers, and looking into religious discrimination in schools.

Lynch did not mention by name President-elect Donald Trump, who during the campaign proposed a ban on Muslims entering the country, though she cited “an increase in divisive and fearful rhetoric” in addition to “a number of tragic terrorist incidents” for the spike in anti-Muslim discrimination.

Trump’s nominee for AG, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, has fought against hate crime protections.