The Islamophobia myth


By Anonymous
December 21, 2010
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http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/1...

When that provocative question appeared on the cover of Time in August, the accompanying story strained to imply, on the basis of some anecdotal evidence, that the answer might be yes. The FBI’s latest compendium of US hate-crimes data suggests far more plausibly that the answer is no.
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In 2009, according to data gathered from more than 14,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide, there were 1,376 hate crimes motivated by religious bias. Of those, just 9.3 percent — fewer than 1 in 10 — were committed against Muslims. By contrast, 70.1 percent were committed against Jews, 6.9 percent were aimed at Catholics or Protestants, and 8.6 percent targeted other religions. Hate crimes driven by anti-Muslim bigotry were outnumbered nearly 8 to 1 by anti-Semitic crimes.

Year after year, American Jews are far more likely to be the victims of religious hate crime than members of any other group. That was true even in 2001, by far the worst year for anti-Muslim incidents, when 481 were reported — less than half of the 1,042 anti-Jewish crimes tabulated by the FBI the same year.

Case dismissed!

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mattpryor

21 December, 2010 - 17:50

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Thanks Jose.

And of course subscribers to Professor Rubin's excellent blog would have been told these figures back in September, three months before the Boston Globe picked up on it!

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2010/09/possible-burning-of-one-koran-definite.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+Rubinreports+(RubinReports)

Yoni1

21 December, 2010 - 18:22

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Time became an America-hating, Moslem-appeasing rag quite some time ago.
Still a way to go before it catches up with the vile NYT, of course.

jose (not verified)

22 December, 2010 - 03:09

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Muslims who complain that they are facing hate crimes in the Western world, and complain that Jews see antisemitism where they believe there is none, are completely confused. There is still a lot of antisemitism about everywhere, compared to anti-Muslim sentiment, and that despite constant islamist attacks on the Western world.
Who would think a victim would be so reluctant to accuse its murderers? But that is what happens and fortunately peaceful Muslims can live with hardly any trouble, in USA and the rest of the world.

Now time for cleaning their own house has come. There the picture is much worse:
- antisemitism affecting 80% of the population,
- conspiracy theories widely believed on Jews, Americans,
- extremists attacking minorities in pogroms
- hate speech sponsored by governmental resources

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