Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The Myth of the “Hate Crime” Wave Against Muslims

We’ve posted in the past about the spurious claims by CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood front groups that “hate crimes” against Muslims are increasing in the United States. When official law enforcement statistics are examined — rather than mere statements by Muslim apologists and their leftist friends — the actual incidence of such crimes is seen to be very low, and getting lower.

In an effort to counter Rep. Pete King (R-NY), who recently held hearings on radical Islam, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) is currently holding his own hearings on prejudice and hate crimes against Muslims. The
Center for Security Policy has just issued a press release to remind Americans of the actual statistics involved:

New Study on Hate Crimes Debunks the Myth of a Growing Trend in Muslim Victimization

Washington, DC, March 29, 2011 — The Center for Security Policy today released a revised edition of their groundbreaking longitudinal study, Religious Bias Crimes 2000-2009: Muslim, Jewish and Christian Victims — Debunking the Myth of a Growing Trend in Muslim Victimization, based on FBI statistics reported annually in the Uniform Crime Reporting Program. The Center’s study contradicts the assertions that religious bias crimes against Muslims have increased, and that the alleged cause is widespread “Islamophobia” in America. In fact, the study shows that religious bias crimes — also known as hate crimes — against Muslim Americans, measured by the categories of incidents, offenses or victims, have remained relatively low with a downward trend since 2001, and are significantly less than the numbers of bias crimes against Jewish victims.

The Center’s study also contradicts the assumption of increased hate crimes against Muslims which has been asserted by Senator Richard Durbin’s (D-IL) Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, and is the topic of hearings being held today. Printed copies of the study were delivered to each member of the U.S. Senate early this morning.

According to the Center’s analysis, in 2009, Jewish victims of hate crimes outnumbered Muslim victims by more than 8 to 1 (1,132 Jewish victims to 132 Muslim victims). From 2000 through 2009, for every one hate crime incident against a Muslim, there were six hate crime incidents against Jewish victims (1,580 Muslim incidents versus 9,692 Jewish incidents). Even in 2001 when religious bias crimes against Muslims increased briefly for a nine-week period, total anti-Muslim incidents, offenses and victims remained approximately half of the corresponding anti-Jewish totals.

The study provides hard data that disproves the counterfactual statements made by a small number of highly vocal Muslim lobbying groups, many linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as leftwing activists. Citing these false assumptions concerning America’s alleged “Islamophobia” and a supposed rising trend in hate crimes against Muslim Americans, these organizations argued against holding the March 10, 2011 House Committee on Homeland Security hearings on Muslim American radicalization, and have argued for today’s hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution . The study shows that these arguments against the March 10 hearings, and for today’s March 29 hearings, are not based on facts but rather on a political agenda.

Frank Gaffney, President of Center for Security Policy remarked:

This report is important because it exposes a false belief perpetuated by a few vocal groups that religious bias crimes against Muslims are on the upswing. The truth is quite the opposite. These arguments, unsubstantiated by hard factual data, are corrosive to community relationships at every level of American society, and a potential threat to national security.

The full text of the white paper, and accompanying excel tables and charts, can be found at the Center for Security Policy.

For more information and to schedule an interview, contact:
Travis Korson tkorson@securefreedom.org or
David Reaboi dreaboi@securefreedom.org

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I thought I read somewhere that the majority of perpetrators of hate crimes against Jews in the USA belonged to a particular religious group, but I have been unable to verify that from the official FBI statistics. Is anybody able to confirm whether or not this is the case and point me in the direction of the official source? It seems that if people are being bashed up for belonging to a religious group, it is fair to see what religious groups the bashers belong to. They keep tabs on the races of perpetrators of racial crimes.

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EscapeVelocity said...

Id just like to note that crimes like the Fort Hood Masacre and 9/11 are not identified as Hate Crimes.

gsw said...

Ah, but the infidel statistics do not take into account ALL the hate crimes - for example:
- when a kufir complains about a taxi driver refusing to chauffeur his blind mother because she has a dog - this is clearly blasphemy against the prophet (who said dogs were unclean) and therefore a hate crime;
- when an employer will not permit an assembly line worker to wear the flowing robes the prophet wore this is a hate crime;
- when a bank wants its tellers to show their faces to customers this is a hate crime;
- when an infidel eats during the days of ramadam in the same room as a believer this is a hate crime;
- when an infidel quotes/reads/touches the Quoran, this is a hate crime;

... and there are a lot more hate crimes - far worse than merely blowing up girl's schools!**

[**irony]