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“Hyping Hate Crime Vs. Muslims”
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, December 03, 2007 4:20 PM PT
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Discrimination: New FBI data on hate crimes reveal Muslim groups are crying wolf about exploding anti-Muslim abuses. They’re actually shrinking, belying claims of mass Islamophobia.
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Not only are anti-Islamic hate crimes way down, but they’re a fraction of overall religious hate crimes. The overwhelming majority of such crimes target Jews, something CAIR and other Muslim groups don’t seem all that concerned about.
In 2006, a whopping 66% of religiously motivated attacks were on Jews, while just 11% targeted Muslims, even though the Jewish and Muslim populations are similar in size. Catholics and Protestants, who together account for 9% of victims, are subject to almost as much abuse as Muslims in this country.
Last year’s anti-Islamic hate crimes totaled 156. While just one hate crime is one too many, that’s a 68% drop from 2001.”
Thanks to Jet Jaguar for starting this thread.
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CORRECTED: 6-way nuke talks face delay due to ‘difficult situation’: Komura+
Breitbart.com ^ | Dec. 4, 2007 | Komura+ (AP)
Posted on 12/03/2007 11:42:50 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
(Kyodo)—Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura indicated Tuesday that a meeting of chief delegates to six-nation talks on denuclearizing North Korea, which Japan, China, South Korea and others had initially hoped would begin on Thursday, will now likely be delayed.
“At first we wanted to have it from Dec. 6-8 and we discussed it at the trilateral (foreign ministerial) meeting between Japan, China and South Korea in Singapore recently,” Komura told reporters. “But right now, a difficult situation has developed and I have been told coordination is still under way.”
He did not elaborate on what the difficulties were.
Under an Oct. 3 six-way agreement, a meeting of the heads of delegations from North and South Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the United States will take place to discuss the agenda for a meeting of foreign ministers from the six countries in Beijing.
North Korea agreed under the deal to disable three key nuclear facilities in Yongbyon and to declare all of its nuclear programs by the end of the year.
U.S. top nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill arrived in Pyongyang on Monday for a three-day visit to monitor the progress of the disablement process and to meet with his North Korean counterpart.
On the North’s promised declaration of its nuclear programs, Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi said Monday he has “not heard” that it has been made, imply that Pyongyang is responsible for the delay in realizing the talks.
Komura met his Chinese and South Korean counterparts in Singapore on Nov. 20 on the sidelines of a regional summit related to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.