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IW Blog: FBI Stats Further Debunk 'Islamophobia' Myth
by David J. Rusin • Nov 30, 2013 at
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FBI-tabulated incidents of anti-Islamic hate
crime fell from 157
in 2011 to 130
in 2012, a decrease of 17.2 percent. Incidents of hate crime spanning all
victim groups dropped by only 6.8 percent, 6,222 to 5,796.
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Of the 1,099
incidents of hate crime motivated by religion in 2012, anti-Islamic ones
constituted just 11.8 percent. Anti-Jewish crimes dominated the tally with
674 incidents, comprising 61.3 percent. This distribution saw little change
from 2011.
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An estimated Muslim population of 2.85
million, based on Pew's 2011
value and annual growth of 100,000, yields 4.6 anti-Islamic incidents per
100,000 Muslims in 2012, lower than the average rate of 6.0
per 100,000 for the prior decade. In comparison, the 674 anti-Jewish incidents
among approximately 6.5
million Jews imply a rate of 10.4 per 100,000 in 2012, more than twice
the Muslim figure. Homosexuals and bisexuals (1,111
incidents) experienced a per capita rate similar to that of Jews, while
blacks (1,805
incidents) were targeted about as often as Muslims. This is in line with
the 2002–11 results.
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Critics correctly note the poor
quality of the 2012 report. Only 13,022
local agencies, representing 248,809,710 Americans, submitted data to the
FBI in 2012, decreases of 10.7 and 13.0 percent, respectively, from 2011.
Incompleteness issues likely contributed to the broad dip in FBI-collected
hate crimes, but the fall in anti-Islamic incidents, 17.2 percent, was large
enough that at least part of it should be real.
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Two lost
their lives in anti-Islamic hate crimes last year, the first such
fatalities to be recorded by the FBI. Ten people were killed in all classes
of hate crime in 2012 and 74
from 2002 to 2011. The FBI tables contain insufficient information to
identify precisely the anti-Islamic incidents that led to deaths, but one of
the deceased may be Sunando
Sen, a Hindu man pushed from a New York City subway platform by a mentally
disturbed woman who later told
police that she had believed him to be Muslim. Further investigation is
required. It is clear which 2012 slayings the FBI wisely did not label as
anti-Islamic: the murder of California Muslim Shaima
Alawadi, which had been touted
as a hate crime before her husband was charged,
and the slaughter
of six Sikhs at a Wisconsin temple, which some had tried
to
blame
on misdirected "Islamophobia."
Muslims are not uniquely victimized by hate crimes in the U.S., a fact
that no amount of spin can erase. To most Americans, evidence of relatively
low and gradually declining frequencies of bias crime is welcome news.
However, it is a disaster for Islamists, who wish to employ
hate crimes against Muslims as weapons to smear and silence opponents of
jihad. In short, FBI statistics published on Thanksgiving week left American
Islamists with one fewer reason to be thankful this year. And that, in turn,
offers the rest of us one more cause for gratitude.
Related Topics:
Interfaith, Multiculturalism,
Police / FBI,
Prisons, Sexuality
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