It was only through a couple of our senators that the statistics came to the fore in the first place. I forget the name of the senators but they wrote to the French demanding that they release the information to the public.
'It was only through a couple of our senators that the statistics came to the fore in the first place...'
Shows how dangerous this entire PC situation is. Fortunately in Australia, the Left hasn't succeeded (yet) in shutting us up, but they are trying.
Hiding muslim crime in over-all statistics is the norm throughout europe, as you will have read, if you followed my links to Mark Steyn, Daniel Pipes and Time Magazine articles. It makes me wonder if the same is not happening in the US, where it is not legal to name the ethnicity of a perpetrator - It's called profiling, I believe.
For the aussie experience, this article speaks volumes:
http://www.hvk.org/articles/0104/64.html