Posted on 11/25/2011 9:27:55 AM PST by presidio9
Over the Goldblog transom came an e-mail from CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, about anti-Muslim hate crimes in the U.S. The e-mail contained a link to an alarming Huffington Post story by Mark Potok headlined "FBI Reports Dramatic Spike in Anti-Muslim Hate Violence." Potok is the director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project. Here is some of what the story reported:
Anti-Muslim hate crimes soared by an astounding 50% last year, skyrocketing over 2009 levels in a year marked by the vicious rhetoric of Islam-bashing politicians and activists, especially over the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" in New York City.
Although the national statistics compiled by the FBI each year are known to dramatically understate the real level of reported and unreported hate crimes, they do offer telling indications of some trends. The latest statistics, showing a jump from 107 anti-Muslim hate crimes in 2009 to 160 in 2010, seem to reflect a clear rise in anti-Muslim rhetoric from groups like Stop Islamization of America. Much of that rhetoric was aimed at stopping an Islamic center in lower Manhattan.
There is no doubt that anti-Muslim prejudice is a serious problem in America, and not only among the Republican candidates for president. But when you dive into the FBI statistics on hate crimes, you discover something very interesting, something CAIR didn't mention, and something Potok didn't report: According to the FBI, only 13.2 percent of religiously-motivated hate attacks in America were directed against Muslims. Jews, however, were on the receiving end of 65.4 percent of all religion-based attacks: the FBI reports 887 hate crimes against Jews, as opposed to 160 against Muslims.
It has been thus for quite a while. In 2009, anti-Jewish hate crimes accounted for 70 percent of
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
>>The fact that entire muslim countries are, in themselves, gigantic hate-crimes against other religions, completely escapes them.<<
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Simply because the cowardly West continues to suck up to islam and fails to inform the muslims of their extreme intolerance toward the non-muslim world.
One way or another, they'll be "informed" at some point, don't worry about that.
>>Convert or die.....THE ULTIMATE HATE CRIME.<<
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And yet, we foolishly continue to give it 1st Amendment protection as if it was a bona fide religion.
We are experimenting with our own demise.
Hey George, is this what you mean when you said that Islam is a religion of peace?
What about all the hate crimes Muslims commit against ....gays, women, christians, Jews, atheists.....on a massive scale. The level of hatred, discrimination and intolerance is beyond belief.
Muslims are always playing the victims, crying about intolerance. What a joke!
So sick of these Islamo nuts crying racism and intolerence, when their whole religion is built on intolerance and breeds hatred and violence.
The Islamos are free to preach all the hatred and intolerance they want in their communities, in America, in Europe, In Britain, in their mosques while the whole lot of them eat it up with a spoon.
Not one of these moderate muslims speak out against any of it......EVER. I see a few brutalized ex-muslim women speak out, but that’s it. Any westerner is evil, racist, spouting “hate speech” and “fear mongering” if they talk about the dangers of the muslim world and their culture.
Sorry they have no credibility. It’s not just “a few muslim extremists” (the usual talking point). The extremists are the majority, not the other way around. The evidence is overwhelming so they’re never going to fool anybody.
3000 Americans were killed in the name of Islam a little over ten years ago.
So again, who are the practitioners of hate?
A nation of over 300 million residents, covering approx. 4 million square miles, and every other day some damn moo has his feelings hurt and reports a 'hate crime'.
Go ahead, ask if I give a shit.
Anti-Jewish hate crimes are much higher.
“There is no doubt that anti-Muslim prejudice is a serious problem in America....”
Right. There isn’t enough of it.
160 "anti-Muslim hate crimes" in a country of over 300 million people is called a "huge jump". These leftists are a freaking joke.
Here is an example:
http://www.mrctv.org/videos/michael-coren-speaks-2-people-convicted-hate-crimes-nov-21-2011
The way you posted the article, without quotation marks or indentation for the quote, incorrectly attributes the second and third paragraph to Jeffrey Goldberg.
In reality Goldberg is challenging the quote.
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