Posted on 05/12/2005 8:40:31 AM PDT by Cornpone
WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/11/05)- A report released today by a prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group indicates that anti-Muslim hate crimes in the United States increased by more than 50 percent in the past year, from 93 cases in 2003 to 141 in 2004.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations' (CAIR) report - the only annual study of its kind - outlines 1522 incidents and experiences of anti-Muslim violence, discrimination and harassment in 2004, the highest number of Muslim civil rights cases ever recorded in the Washington-based group's annual report. (Hundreds of anti-Muslim incidents reported immediately following the 9/11 attack were detailed in a separate report.) According to the study, called Unequal Protection,” that figure is a 49 percent jump over the preceding year.
CAIR said factors contributing to the sharp increase in reported incidents included the lingering impact of post-9/11 fears, increased awareness of civil rights issues in the Muslim community, a general increase in anti-Muslim rhetoric, growth in the number of local CAIR chapters reporting cases, and abuses associated with the implementation of national security policies. (The complete report may be viewed at: Civil Rights Report)
Ten states accounted for almost 79 percent of all incidents reported to CAIR in 2004. Those states include: California (20 percent), New York (10 percent), Arizona (9 percent), Virginia (7 percent), Texas (7 percent), Florida (7 percent), Ohio (5 percent), Maryland (5 percent), New Jersey (5 percent), and Illinois (3 percent). (All figures are rounded to the nearest whole number.)
By far the greatest increase over last year, in both real and proportional terms, occurred in the areas of unreasonable arrests, detentions, searches/seizures, and interrogations. In 2003, complaints concerning law enforcement agencies accounted for only seven percent of all reported incidents. In 2004, however, these reports rose to almost 26 percent of all cases.
There were drops in certain categories from the previous year's report. For example, workplace discrimination complaints constituted nearly 23 percent of complaints in 2003, but dropped to just under 18 percent of total complaints in 2004. Complaints involving governmental agencies decreased from 29 percent in 2003 to 19 percent in 2004.
These disturbing figures come as no surprise given growing Islamophobic sentiments and a general misperception of Islam and Muslims,” said CAIR Legal Director Arsalan Iftikhar, the report's author. Iftikhar said the phenomenon of Islamophobia will be addressed at a CAIR conference, called “Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism: Causes and Remedies,” to be held this weekend in Washington, D.C. SEE: http://www.cair-net.org/2005conference/
“We call on President Bush, whose statements after the 9/11 attacks were so important in helping to protect the well-being of the American Muslim community, to once again speak out against Islamophobic attitudes,” said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad. Awad also called on Congress to hold hearings on the findings of CAIR's report.
We need to be more like Avis then.
149?
we need to do more :p
These people have the same playbook as the libs. No wonder the Islamists and liberals are in bed together. It couldn't happen to a more "peaceful" religion.
Would you be a passanger on a plane if you knew that the captain was a Muslim?
Would you feel safe if airport security was turned over to Muslim management?
Do you feel safe standing next to a veiled Muslim woman in a crowd knowing that female suicide bombers have been used in Israel?
Do you want to be represented in Congress by a Muslim?
Would you trust our national security to a Muslim?
If the answer is negative to the above questions, then tell me how we can benefit from their presence in our midst. The high cost of our national security in protecting ourselves against Muslim terrorism could be better spent on more beneficial national projects. At no time in our history has a collective group of immigrants been such a high security risk. The problem will not abate in the future but will only become worse.
Isn't it more cost effective to tell all Muslims to leave for countries that are more in tune with their religious belief (like Europe)? No harm should be done to them; just tell them to go to their own nirvana.
>> They hate the West. Why are they here ? <<
To take over the country and subject us all to sharia law.
Leave me on your list!
So Jews are harassed 7 times more than muslims ?
I guess the muslims would be a major contributing factor to the jewish harassment
Therefore, muslims probably harass jews more than they get harassed.
Nice logic. CAIR should shut up with their whiney non-issue.
Memo to CAIR from Virgina:
allah fubar, you no-count carpetbaggers!
To try and destroy us all. CAIR is insidiously seditiouc.
Of course with CAIR any report of the written facts that
surround the Koran, or Hadith,or the factual historical record of Islam is declared a hate Crime unless printed in
Arabic and translated so as to decieve the unbeliever(in Islam)
And flush more copies of th eKoran down the crapper-we need to stoke this fire to that point where like an oil rig fire it blows itself out.Jihad my Arse.
CAIR does not mention that in 2003 there were more than six times as many anti-Jewish hate crimes (927) as anti-Islamic hate crimes (149), and nearly as many anti-Christian hate crimes (125) as anti-Islamic crimes. By the way, there were only 9 anti-atheist/agnostic hate crimes, giving the lie to claims that we are living in a fundamentalist, dangerous-to-non-Christians theocracy.
(adding to the above replies:)
...and to benefit from our robust economy, own and operate high-profit restaurants and gas stations, and send the proceeds back to the Middle East to fund terrorism.
I did miss that one but there is no doubt some truth to that.
What's CAIR's mailing address? I'm going to send them a care package of pork chops and sausage. Of course, that would probably add to their list of 'hate crimes' for 2005.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations ~ 453 New Jersey Ave SE ~ Washington, DC 20003-4034
Make sure the stuff sits in the sun for a couple of days before you ship it:)
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/006144.php#more
The above link will lead you to an article written by DCWatson. He hit's cAIR right in the jaw about "islamaphobia".
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