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The Tuscon massacre ghouls who are now trying to criminalize conservatism have forced our hand. They need to be reminded. You need to be reminded. Confront them. Don’t be cowed into silence. And don’t let the media whitewash the sins of the hypocritical Left in their naked attempt to suppress the law-abiding, constitutionally-protected, peaceful, vigorous political speech of the Right.They want to play tu quo que in the middle of a national tragedy? They asked for it. They got it. ***The progressive climate of hate: A comprehensive illustrated primer in 8 parts:I. PALIN HATEII. BUSH HATEIII. MISC. TEA PARTY/GOP/ANTI-TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE...

A growing number of hate crimes — 24 percent — included white supremacy symbols, including swastikas. Jews were targeted in about half of these crimes, followed by blacks and Latinos. “We see the same groups — African Americans, Jews, gays and lesbians, and Latinos — victimized most frequently year after year,” said Robin Toma, executive director of the Human Relations Commission. The number of crimes, which dropped from 730 in 2008 to 580 last year, reflects one murder and two attempted murders, Toma said. It is the second lowest hate crime count in the past decade. Hate crimes occurred across...

NEW YORK -- Last April, Christine Quinn, speaker of New York's City Council, honored members of the police department's Hate Crimes Task Force and jokingly said she looked forward to the day she could put them out of business. Since that day, the city seems to have gone on a hate-crime spree, culminating early this month with the torture of three men in the Bronx for purportedly being gay. Too soon, you might say, to disband the Hate Crimes Task Force. You would be wrong. Almost as bad as hate crimes themselves is the designation. It is a little piece...

Perhaps the most basic measure of a country’s character is whether people, when given the chance, flood into the country or risk life and limb to escape from it. By this measure, Muslims are flourishing in America. Meanwhile, though Christianity predates Islam by centuries in the Middle East, intensifying persecution has prompted a mass Christian exodus from that region. The New York Times recently published a piece with the headline, “American Muslims ask, ‘Will we ever belong?’” And Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Ground Zero mosque’s would-be imam, defended the mosque on ABC’s “This Week,” saying, “My major concern with moving...

SNIPPET: " It was found at the front door of the Islamic Center of East Lansing." SNIPPET: "The department is offering $10,000 for any information that would lead to the identification and prosecution of those responsible for this act. Those with information are asked to call Det. Sherief Fadly..."

Two fights occurred Friday night near Sharp Stadium following the Newton and Eastside High schools football game, one of which may have been gang-related, Covington police reported today. Police were called about 9:30 p.m. Officers arrived and spoke with a Newton student, who told them he had been assaulted by a group of males. The student was kicked and punched repeatedly, according to reports, and sustained minor cuts and bruising. The student's mother drove him to Newton Medical Center for treatment and observation since he is a hemophiliac. About an hour later, officers were called to the same area of...

Inconvenient Truth: 10 Times More Hate Crimes Against Jews Than Muslims   By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive) Mon, 09/06/2010 - 20:18 ET If you believed the media, you would think that hate crimes against Muslims was a growing epidemic in America.Just Monday, the New York Times had a front page story hysterically noting a "torrent of anti-Muslim sentiments and a spate of vandalism.""The knifing of a Muslim cab driver in New York City has also alarmed many American Muslims," wrote Laurie Goodstein in the second paragraph of her article titled "American Muslims Ask, Will We Ever Belong?"Unfortunately, as Michael Doyle reported on August 28, the...

Nineteen Muslim terrorists murdered 2,976 citizens of more than 90 countries in the name of Islam on Sept. 11, 2001. That same year, there were 481 incidents of anti-Islamic “hate crimes” in the U.S. Not murders, mind you. Even spray painting unpleasant words on someone’s wall qualifies as a hate crime. Besides which, 2001 was the nadir (lowest point) of America’s much-discussed anti-Muslim intolerance. The rest at www.HillBuzz.Org

Over the recent Fourth of July weekend, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) interviewed attendees of the 47th annual Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention about their experiences in dealing with “Islamophobia.” Shortly afterwards, on July 6, CAIR called on the FBI to investigate an act of arson at a Georgia mosque, saying that hate crimes were increasing because of a “vocal minority in our society promoting anti-Muslim bigotry.” The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) referred to it as one of the “incidents of Islamophobia [that] are on the rise in this country.” However, police later arrested a...

As we are sonorously and endlessly told, the Southern Poverty Law Center is all about exposing the "hate" and working for "civil rights" in America. But a new website, Watching the Watchdogs, has tracked down the salaries and identities of SPLC's top officers and it is interesting to note that they are all white people. Not a "minority" in the bunch. And they are all making a pretty penny, too. So, what do you have when a "civil rights" organization that tries to fight the "hate" out there, an organization that claims it is all about protecting America's minorities, hasn't...

Letter to the Editor by Beth Rogers EDITOR'S NOTE: Beth Rogers is a frequent contributor to RFFM.org and a pro-family political activist. Rogers, who hails from Springfield, Illinois, is one of the most influential socially conservative leaders in the state. Proponents of "gay" rights have said many times what others do in their bedroom doesn't affect anyone else and is no one's business. The recent circumstances at the University of Illinois prove otherwise as a university professor shared his beliefs on natural moral laws and then was fired for his opinion. Professor Kenneth Howell's firing is only one example of...

NOTE The following text is a quote: News Release July 8 2010 OPP lay charges for hate crimes TORONTO, July 8 /CNW/ - Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have charged a Mississauga man under a seldom-used section of the Criminal Code of Canada governing hate crimes. At a news conference in Toronto, Commissioner Julian FANTINO and members of the Provincial Operations Intelligence Bureau's Hate Crimes Extremism Unit outlined details of the charges against 25-year-old Salman An-Noor HOSSAIN. A five-month investigation revealed that a website and blog operated by Mr. HOSSAIN contained information that, among other things, wilfully promoted hatred and advocated...

It’s time once again for some more left-wing hand wringing over the supposed rise of "white militias" in the era of Obama. This time it is the blather of Metro Columnist Courtland Milloy claiming that white-based hate groups have increased substantially because we have a black president. Milloy also rails about the "racial double standard" in evidence because no one is all that upset about this business. If it were black racists increasing their militia activities because of a white president, Milloy gravely writes, why the whole country would be alarmed. Milloy isn't the only denizen of the Old Media...

Note: The following text is a quote: Additional Charges Filed Against Two Men for Springfield Church Arson Presidential Election Sparked Hate Crime SPRINGFIELD, MA—Additional criminal charges were filed today against two Springfield men in relation to the burning of a Springfield church on November 5, 2008. United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division; Glenn N. Anderson, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives - Boston Field Division; Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston...

[...] Signs read "Asians are not punching bags" and "stop racial violence." While organizers admit that the victims, particularly Chinese-Americans, have been reluctant to report and express public outrage over incidents in the past, the community seems united now. After an emotional two-hour session of testimony at last Tuesday's Board of Supervisor's meeting, Asian victims are speaking up and working hard to make sure the media focuses on the incidents. At Tuesday's rally victims were encouraged to record their stories on video and to write out the details on cards and place them in a note box. Li says the...

Today on the news I saw yet another white man charged with a hate crime for having killed someone of another race. The victim was Hispanic. I'm wondering... are all hate crime charges leveled at whites? If so, doesn't this create an unequal-before-the law situation that is even more unconstitutional than the original concern of protected minorities having more rights than others? I mean... it sounds like hate crime legislation is actually targetting one group. Were those muslims who shot the allegedly gay man with a BB gun charged with hate crimes? Was the black gang who tortured and murdered...

Mogadishu, Somalia, Apr 17, 2010 / 06:26 pm (CNA).- All but two of Mogadishu’s 13 radio stations have silenced their music programming under orders from the Islamic insurgents, including the militant groups The Shebab and Hizbul-Islam.Even the musical jingles played before news, education and other programs were banned. In addition, bells in schools were ordered shut down under the pretense that they sound similar to church bells."The bell they ring to summon students for classes is illegal in Islam. We know that ringing bells is a sign of the Christian churches," Sheik Farah Kalar, senior Shebab official, told reporters...

Let me see if I have this right: Muslims can confess to shooting a man they thought was gay in the face with a BB gun and can plea out and get community service? Well isn’t that special? And a Muslim can smoke a pipe in the bathroom of an airborne 757 and then, when caught, act like a cavalier jackass to the arresting air marshal and walk away because of some diplomatic immunity nonsense? Is that it? Yes? Oh, okay. Well, I have four words for that … la-di-flippin’-da. (Someone help me here: Does diplomatic immunity also extend to...

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 04/03/2010 It's tempting to think of college campuses as islands of enlightenment, places where students embrace new ideas, people and cultures without the specter of hate hanging overhead. Tempting. But it's not always the case, as demonstrated by events on campuses in Missouri and across the nation in recent months. There were cotton balls scattered outside the black cultural center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. There have been racial slurs and a threat of lynching at St. Louis University. There was a swastika scrawled on a bathroom wall near a Jewish studies center at the University of...

SNIPPET: "(03-03) 17:42 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Three cousins from Hayward have been charged in San Francisco with a hate crime and assault for allegedly firing a BB rifle at the face of a man they believed was gay, an attack the men videotaped, authorities said Wednesday." SNIPPET: "Mohammad Habibzada, Shafiq Hashemi and Sayed Bassam, all 24, are scheduled to be arraigned today in San Francisco Superior Court. They are free on $50,000 bond apiece." SNIPPET: "Investigators believe the assailants chose the victim because he appeared to be gay. When the men were pulled over, police found a video camera...