American Hate Crimes against Jews and Muslims

The Federal Bureau of Investigation today issued statistics for Crime in the United States 2004. One section deals with hate crimes concerning religion and the breakdown looks like this:

Bias motivation	Incidents	Offenses	Victims	Known offenders
Anti-Jewish	954	1,003	1,076	330
Anti-Catholic	57	57	68	37
Anti-Protestant	38	43	48	28
Anti-Islamic	156	193	201	124
Anti-Other Religion	128	140	147	68
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group	35	37	39	14
Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.	6	7	7	3
Total religion:	1,374	1,480	1,586	604

Looking at the "incidents" category and pulling out my calculator, it turns out that 69 percent of the hate crimes are directed against Jews, 11 percent against Muslims, and 7 percent against Christians.

Comments: (1) Assuming there are twice as many Jews as Muslims in the United States, there are three times per-capita more hate crimes versus Jews than versus Muslims. (2) For all the high-profile Islamist acts of aggression, antisemitism remains a deeper and more powerful source of hostility than anti-Islamic sentiments. (October 17, 2005)

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