Re: FBI Hate Crime Stats Again Debunk Myth of Anti-Muslim Backlash

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>Even more to the point, the number of anti-Jewish hate crimes dwarfed again the 
number of anti-Islamic attacks, as they have every year since such statistics 
>were first kept: 931 anti-Semitic incidents, compared with 107 anti-Islamic 
incidents, a ratio of better than 8 to 1.  The same was true in 2008, when the 
figures were 1,013 anti-Jewish incidents to 105 anti-Muslim incidents. Indeed, 
>even in 2001, the worst year for anti-Muslim hate crimes, there were still more 
than twice as many anti-Jewish incidents as those with anti-Islamic motivations. 
>Throughout this period, the vast majority of hate crimes motivated by religion 
>have been directed against Jews, not Muslims.

Did anyone claim only Muslims faced hate crimes?  Or that they were getting worse treatment than Jews?



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