Crimes directed at Muslims surged after September 11

Washington Times ^ | 11/26/02 | AP

[kattracks]

Muslims and people who are or appear to be Middle Easterners were reported as victims of hate crimes more often last year than ever before, a consequence of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the FBI said yesterday.

The FBI's annual hate crimes report found that incidents targeting people, institutions and businesses identified with Islam increased from 28 in 2000 to 481 in 2001, a jump of 1,700 percent. Muslims had been among the least-targeted religious groups.

[Michael Barnes]

Crimes directed at Muslims surged after September 11

Not nearly enough...

[ctnoell]

I would sympathize, but I honestly cannot. The overall silence of the Islamic community in the United States is deafening. As a result, some of these hate crimes are brought upon themselves. JOIN THE WAR EFFORT!

[Righty1]

There is a huge amount of frustration with the RINOS for not prosecuting the war more like WW2 was after we were attacked. If GW would quit with the islam is peace crap and Powell with his import an arab program this problem would fit on the head of a pin!

[Paleo Conservative]

But it left out this fact. Crimes by Muslims committed against mostly non-Muslims soared on September 11, 2001.

[MeekOneGOP]

I would sympathize, but I honestly cannot. The overall silence of the Islamic community in the United States is deafening. As a result, some of these hate crimes are brought upon themselves. JOIN THE WAR EFFORT!

The silence by the Muslim community is deafening, I agree. I wonder why the choice of silence, hmmm???.....

[spodefly]

The increases, the FBI said, happened "presumably as a result of the heinous incidents that occurred on September 11."

I would be willing to bet that the 'increases' are a direct result of the reporting mechanism used by the muslime apologist groups like CAIR, because any time a non-muslime doesn't bow towards a muslime and profess complete servitude to their pagan god, they considered that a hate crime.

F'em and feed 'em ham.

[copycat]

One man's "crime" is another man's "Jihad."

[hellinahandcart]

I was going to say that there is a concerted (and political) effort to REPORT as many hate crimes as possible. Doesn't mean they really happened, or really are in fact 'hate crimes'.