[Paul Bunyan]

Once again the leftist screams of "Islamophobia" are shown to be statistically bogus.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/20...anti-semitism/

The report is not perfect, since not all parts of the country do a good job compiling the data, but it provides an important snapshot of the state of the nation regarding bias crimes. But the numbers speak for themselves. In 2010, only 13.2 percent of religion-based attacks were directed at Muslims. By comparison, 65.4 percent of such crimes were directed at Jews. This shows a slight increase over the last two years (the raw numbers show 887 anti-Jewish attacks with only 160 anti-Muslim attacks), but is not a statistical fluke. In 2009, the FBI reported that 70.1 percent of religious-based hate crimes were anti-Jewish while only 9.3 percent were anti-Islamic. In 2008, the FBI said 66.1 percent were anti-Jewish while 7.5 percent were anti-Muslim. This has been true of every year in the past decade, even in 2001 when anti-Muslim crime spiked in the wake of 9/11. For all of the breast-beating about Islamophobia in this country, anti-Semitism remains a far greater problem.

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/201...obia-2010.html

[Lt_Apple]

The screaming banshee leftists are in good company statistically; they're statistically bogus, too. I'm sure these revealing stats have not caused anyone's jaw to drop who's on this forum.

[Big A]

The screaming banshee leftists are in good company statistically; they're statistically bogus, too. I'm sure these revealing stats have not caused anyone's jaw to drop who's on this forum.

The leftists cheer their worst enemy, and are too clueless to know it.

[Beerinkol]

Yep, they would or will be amongst the first to feel the blade's edge if their so-called friends, the screaming banshees were to succeed: clueless, indeed.

[Beerinkol]

What's interesting is that there are no hate crimes against atheists/agnostics. On some of the atheist/secular humanist forums I lurked on (don't ask me why) out of curiosity, you would think they are being persecuted in America....

[Slonopotam845]

Antisemitic hate crimes are so common they go unreported:

http://mideastparalleluniverse.blogs...s-that-it.html

When, almost two weeks ago, a particularly serious anti-Jewish hate crime was committed in Brooklyn, the NY Times first reported it only in it's Metro section blog and then sat on the story for a full weekend before doing a follow up. In the meantime both NY tabloids, The Daily News and The NY Post reported it throughout the weekend as a matter of urgency. But they're just tabloids.

Coincidentally, I happened to be perusing the Southern Poverty Law Center's website and was surprised to discover that Antisemitism is not listed as a specific 'ideology' (apart from Holocaust Denial) in its Intelligence Files. I found that rather confusing and wrote to Mark Potok asking for an explanation. He very graciously responded with a phone call and explained that because Antisemitism is to be found among just about every hate group/ideology -- from Left to Right -- it cannot be made to fit into SPLC's morphology. What I heard was that Antisemitism is so ubiquitous in our society that somehow it defies categorization.


So prevalent, so expected is it in our society that the press barely mentions it when, as Jeffrey Goldberg posted today, the FBI reports that crimes against Jews qua Jews tops the list of all religion-based crimes in the US. That is, 65.4% are committed against Jews, as opposed to, for example, 13.2% against Muslims.