Re: FBI Hate Crime Stats Again Debunk Myth of Anti-Muslim Backlash
"Karl Swenson" <[email protected]>
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I cannot say about any specific claims, but there are a lot of talking heads (mostly on the left) who are constantly trying to paint muslims as innocent victims of increasing numbers of hate crimes, perhaps in part to try again to paint conservatives as racists intolerant haters. But the numbers do not support it. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 12:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] FBI Hate Crime Stats Again Debunk Myth of Anti-Muslim Backlash >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? Thom http://thomwade.wordpress.com/ http://www.cafepress.com/Thomwade http://www.in-one-ear.com _______________________________________ "I want a song to learn and sing, of a life requited."-Echo & the Bunnymen -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot