CLEVELAND -- The FBI said the number of anti-Islamic hate crimes has jumped up 1,600 percent in the months since Sept. 11.

NewsChannel5's Debora Lee spoke with a local Islamic leader who said the reported increase in hate crimes against Muslims and people of Middle Eastern descent is just the tip of the iceberg.

"There were Muslims intimidated who didn't report those events to law-enforcement authorities," said Dr. Ihsan Ul Haque, head of the Islamic Society in Akron and Kent, Ohio.

A crime such as vandalism isn't labeled a hate crime without having a note or graffiti along with it to indicate that hate was involved, reported Lee.

According to Haque, Sept. 11 put Muslims back 15 years socially, politically, and economically.

Lee said that there were 481 anti-Islamic hate crimes nationwide in 2001, but the Cleveland FBI reported only six.

The people who commit hate crimes are in the minority, and the way to reach them is through education, according to Haque.

There will be a community dinner next Monday in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, to honor the people who supported the Muslim community after Sept. 11.