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Saudi-sponsored Georgetown report grossly inflates hate crimes against Muslims in US

Aug 20, 2016 9:15 am By Robert Spencer

The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), designated a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates, and other Muslims have on many occasions not hesitated to stoop even to fabricating “hate crimes,” including attacks on mosques. A New Jersey Muslim was found guilty of murder that he tried to portray as an “Islamophobic” attack, and in 2014 in California, a Muslim was found guilty of killing his wife, after first blaming her murder on “Islamophobia.”

This kind of thing happens quite frequently. The New York Daily News reported just last week that “a woman who told cops she was called a terrorist and slashed on her cheek in lower Manhattan on Thursday later admitted she made up the story, police said early Friday. The woman, who wore a headscarf, told authorities a blade-wielding wacko sliced open her face as she left a Manhattan cosmetology school, police sources said.”

And several weeks ago in Britain, the murder of a popular imam was spread far and wide as another “Islamophobic hate crime” – until his killer also was found to be a Muslim.

The Mirror reported that the imam “was targeted because he had made efforts to turn youngsters away from radical Islam.”

According to The Detroit News, a Muslim woman, Saida Chatti, was “charged with making a false police report after she allegedly fabricated a plot to blow up Dearborn Fordson High School to retaliate against the November terrorist attacks in Paris….Police say Chatti called Dearborn investigators Nov. 19, six days after Islamic extremists killed 130 people in Paris.”

And similarly in Britain, a Muslim woman was “fined for lying to police about being attacked for wearing a hijab. The 18-year-old student, known only as Miss Choudhury, said she was violently shoved from behind and punched in the face by a man in Birmingham city centre 10 days after the atrocities in the French capital on November 13.”

In today’s politically correct environment, hate crimes are political capital. They foster the impression that resistance to Islamic terrorism equals hatred of Muslims, and results in the victimization of innocent people. Hamas-linked CAIR and other Islamic supremacist organizations want and need hate crimes against Muslims, because they’re the currency they use to buy power and influence in our victimhood-oriented society, and to deflect attention away from jihad terror and onto Muslims as putative victims. Want power and influence? Be a victim!

Esposito Talal

“Saudi-Sponsored Report Grossly Inflates U.S. Muslim Hate Crimes,” by Paul Sperry, CounterJihad, August 19, 2016:

A recently released academic report claiming the candidacy of GOP presidential nod Donald Trump has led to a mini-holocaust against Muslims in America is riddled with errors and exaggerations. Yet Muslim pressure groups are actively pushing it out to the media to support the notion that Muslims are the ones under violent attack.

Sponsored by the Saudi prince who tried to bribe then-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani into saying U.S. foreign policy was to blame for 9/11, the “special report” — “When Islamophobia Turns Violent: The 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections” — is designed to gin up sympathy for Muslims and shut down terrorism investigations in the Muslim community, as well as the presidential debate over Muslim immigration.

The Muslim Public Affairs Council — which was founded by known members of the radical Muslim Brotherhood, a worldwide jihadist movement — is distributing the report by Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in an email alert to members. MPAC’s president, Salam al-Marayati, who signed the emailed letter, was once kicked off the National Commission on Terrorism after his defense of terrorist acts and the groups who carry them out was revealed.

“During the course of 2015, there were approximately 174 reported incidents of anti-Muslim violence and vandalism, including: 12 murders; 29 physical assaults; 50 threats against persons or institutions; 54 acts of vandalism or destruction of property; 8 arsons; and 9 shootings or bombings, among other incidents,” the 73-page report claims. “The number of incidents in 2015 is also higher than the total number of anti-Muslim hate crimes reported in 2014: 154.”

Sounds terrible. But it’s not what it seems.

The only accurate part of the statement is that there were, in fact, 154 confirmed anti-Muslim incidents in 2014, according to FBI crime tables. That’s up from 135 cases in 2013 and 130 in 2012, but a far cry from the total number in 2001, when the FBI investigated 481 hate crimes against Muslims.

Even that high number isn’t as bad as it seems. Of the 554 victims of anti-Islamic crimes reported in 2001 — a year that included the murder of almost 3,000 Americans by 19 Muslim hijackers — more than half (296) were victims not of aggravated assault or even simple assault but of “intimidation.”

According to the Justice Department, hate crimes against Muslims have fallen dramatically since 9/11, and it’s unlikely 2015 will break the trend, Georgetown’s alarmism notwithstanding.

Its tally of 174 hate crimes last year is unofficial, unconfirmed and, as it turns out, grossly inflated. Its source is not the FBI, which won’t release actual data for 2015 hate crimes until November, but the media. “These incidents were reported by local and national news outlets,” it admits in a footnote in the report.

But Georgetown doesn’t even get that right. A review of press accounts of incidents cited as anti-Muslim hate crimes reveal that in several cases the authors of the Georgetown report misrepresented what was reported by the media, claiming as hates crimes cases that were never investigated as hate crimes.

In fact, some of the Muslims the authors claim were murdered because of their religion were in fact killed during a robbery. Hatred for their faith had nothing to do with it.

For example, the report claimed: “On April 19, in Lexington, Ky., Salahuddin Jitmoud, 22, was murdered outside an apartment building in what his faith community fear was a hate crime.”

In fact, Jitmoud, a pizza delivery driver, was gunned down in a robbery carried out by three black suspects. Police never even considered it a hate crime.

The report also counted as an “act of anti-Muslim violence” the following: “On Dec. 7, in Miami-Dade, Fla., someone shot a Muslim store clerk.”

That someone was an armed robber described as a black man who shot a food-mart operator after he refused to hand over cash from his register. Police are investigating it as a robbery, not a hate crime.

The report also falsely cites as an anti-Muslim hate crime the February 2015 murder of three Muslim students — Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha — who were shot by a neighbor near the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill campus.

Only, local law enforcement authorities investigating the murders cited a long-standing parking dispute as the likely motive. Even the Obama Justice Department has declined to prosecute the case as a hate crime. The main source claiming the triple homicide was religiously motivated is the victims’ Muslim-activist father.

The Georgetown report claimed instances of anti-Muslim violence surged “after Mr. Trump threw his hat into the presidential ring” on June 16, 2015. For instance:

  • “On July 1, in North Brunswick, New Jersey, a South Asian man was found on the side of the road, bleeding from the head after a bias attack.”
  • “On July 5, in Chico, California, the Fusion Hookah Lounge was set ablaze after two men drove by yelling threatening comments.”

But the New Jersey victim wasn’t even Muslim. He’s Hindu. And Chico investigators say there’s no evidence of a hate crime there.

In at least three other cases, Georgetown mistakenly counted Sikhs as victims of anti-Muslim hate crimes.

The report’s authors also counted as a hate crime the defacing of a “Hijab Day” poster hanging on a wall at Murray State University in Kentucky.

What’s more, they falsely claimed a Seattle mosque was targeted by arsons. Local authorities say a large building that housed several tenants including the mosque was set ablaze along with other property in a string of arsons last October. They said it did not appear the mosque, which was located on an upper floor, was targeted.

Increasingly, Muslim activists are faking anti-Muslim hate crimes across the country to prop up the fiction that Muslims are routinely victimized. Over the last few years, in fact, authorities have documented several totally fabricated cases. More and more Muslims are crying wolf, and the media are falling for it every time, numbing the public to real cases of religiously motivated violence.

There is no pogrom against Muslims. It’s a myth. In fact, there are fewer attacks on Muslims today than a decade ago and a third as many as 2001. And even then, they were dwarfed by attacks on Jews, most of which were instigated by … Muslims. In 2014, the 609 crimes against Jews were four times the number of crimes against Muslims.

The real problem is anti-Semitism, something that radical, Saudi-backed mosques and madrassas in America are guilty of spreading in their hateful sermons and literature every week. Of the total 1,140 victims of anti-religious hate crimes reported by the FBI in 2014, a whopping 57% were Jewish. Only 16% were Muslim.

In the latest rash of anti-Semitism, pro-Palestinian thugs have been attacking Jews at the University of Tennessee and other U.S. campuses.

Hysteria over “Islamophobic” hate crimes is merely used by radical Islamist groups such as MPAC and the Council on American-Islamic Relations to stifle criticism of the jihadism and Shariah creep they promote. It’s noteworthy that terrorist front CAIR is bankrolled by the sponsor of the Georgetown hate-crimes report: Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal.

After 9/11, bin Talal offered Giuliani $10 million in disaster relief on the condition he call on Washington to reexamine U.S. policy in the Middle East. The former New York mayor rejected his blood money.

If politicians and the media continue to take such phony alarmism seriously, the public risks focusing on imaginary threats against Muslims while ignoring real threats by Muslims.

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  1. Kay says

    Aug 20, 2016 at 9:38 am

    “the public risks focusing on imaginary threats against Muslims while ignoring real threats by Muslims.”
    ___
    I see it already, all the time.

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 20, 2016 at 10:05 am

      The only positive I see is that those Muslims who are making up these false claims to hide Islam’s daily disgrace are at least aware of Islam’s lack of morals to have enough shame to try to hide it by blaming others.

  2. Angemon says

    Aug 20, 2016 at 9:45 am

    A recently released academic report claiming the candidacy of GOP presidential nod Donald Trump has led to a mini-holocaust against Muslims in America is riddled with errors and exaggerations.

    What? No way!!!

  3. Phil says

    Aug 20, 2016 at 9:46 am

    Yes and immediately after the murder of the imam in Richmond Hill, Queens the media played over and over again the 2 guys that were recorded blaming it on Donald Trump. If America is that stupid next November where they can be scared into voting for Hillary based on “Islamophobia” then we deserve to be taken over by the Jurassic theme park caliphate.

  4. Jay Boo says

    Aug 20, 2016 at 10:00 am

    Double — Conflict of Interest

    Georgetown University’s:
    NEED for more funding is based on number if hate crimes.

    Saudi funders:
    WANT the claim of more hate crimes to say Muslims are the victim.

  5. overman says

    Aug 20, 2016 at 11:17 am

    ln Australia they are actually lobbying to elevate islam to a race.

    • Kay says

      Aug 20, 2016 at 11:21 am

      God help us!

  6. linnte says

    Aug 20, 2016 at 11:22 am

    It is incredible to me that Muslims refuse to understand that it is their own ideology that people reject completely. And that Muslims don’t get it that we SHOULD be afraid of them and their ideology is a perfect example of how unable they are of having EMPATHY. When was the last time you heard a Muslim say, “I understand your fears and I am sorry you feel that fear”? Never.

    I personally wish they WERE picked on more. It would mean non Muslims have gained knowledge of Islam and have strength to let Muslims know we won’t put up with their crap.

  7. Jay Boo says

    Aug 20, 2016 at 11:59 am

    Most hate crimes against Muslims are from other Muslims.
    This happens when they choose to no longer be Muslim.

  8. Keys says

    Aug 20, 2016 at 12:38 pm

    This “report”, filled with half-truths and deceit, covers so many incidents that a hard-working American would rarely have time to check them all out for veracity.

    And why would one invest that time? After all the report is sponsored through a prestigious Catholic American University.

    Never mind that a verified bribing Saudi Prince is using a “back door bribe” through Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Georgetown would not want to loose that money by throwing a wrench in to Muslim-Christian “dialogue”.

    Google “Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding” and the first article today is: “Mental Illness: A Key Factor in Terror”. JW has seen that explanation so often it’s often used as a “sarcastic joke” here. Is Georgetown expected to parrot CAIR’s talking points to keep the Prince’s money coming in ?

    Let’s hope Georgetown’s motto: “Both Into One” isn’t about Chrislam. (Sarc off)

    “The great masses of people will fall more easily victim to a big lie than a small one.” – A. Hitler, “Mein Kampf

    • Keys says

      Aug 20, 2016 at 12:45 pm

      Hitler had a point. About two billion people accept the big lie of all time – Islam.

    • Kay says

      Aug 20, 2016 at 4:05 pm

      Keys wrote: This “report”, filled with half-truths and deceit, covers so many incidents that a hard-working American would rarely have time to check them all out for veracity.
      ——-
      Good point. The amount of information to check out–or in general to try to understand–is overwhelming, and worse if you’re already behind.
      I had expected government to protect our country, including its health and economy. I had expected news agencies to report news. I had expected church leaders to proclaim the Gospel.

  9. davej says

    Aug 20, 2016 at 1:34 pm

    Hey look over there! Don’t believe your own eyes!

    Major deceitful propaganda from an Arabian funded “American University”.

    Shame on them.

  10. desidude2 says

    Aug 20, 2016 at 3:16 pm

    “Sponsored by the Saudi prince who tried to bribe then-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani into saying U.S. foreign policy was to blame for 9/11”
    We all know this is going on.we know hillary is taking muslim dollars, but how many other corrupt government officials are on the take? for every one who refuses these tainted dollars there must be others who will greedily take them.

  11. CJ says

    Aug 20, 2016 at 3:25 pm

    What’s this “grossly inflates” stuff? It’s all true, I tell ya. The US is a dreadful place for muslims. Absolutely, completely, beyond imaginably awful. You’ll be miserable, perhaps even persecuted. And worst of all, roving bands of evangelical Christians will pass out tracts proclaiming “Jesus is Lord” — and the government won’t even stop them.

    If you value your life, if you value your children’s lives, stay away. Stay far, far away.

  12. Jay Boo says

    Aug 20, 2016 at 5:13 pm

    I-Phobia
    Global Warming
    Anything but Islam

    (Fill in the blank) – is much worse than Islamic Terrorism.
    MSM job application form question.

    • don says

      Aug 20, 2016 at 9:32 pm

      the answer is (NOTHING)…..guess I ain’t getting hired…..8+)

  13. t.griffith says

    Aug 20, 2016 at 7:26 pm

    US universities have become institutions of bigotry and hate. The bigoted haters compile report after report labeling others as hateful bigots. These hate factories are a threat to surrounding communities and must be treated as such.

  14. Karen says

    Aug 20, 2016 at 11:26 pm

    American universities in their never ending lust for cash gladly take the dirty money of Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, who has established ‘institutes of mutual tolerance’ in many of the most prestigious universities around the Western world. These institutes provide steady employ of Western scholars of Islam, who then happily carry water for the prince, and spread his message of ‘tolerance’; primarily for Islam. Funny though; the prince doesn’t seem to be using his billions to wipe out the anti-Jew and anti-Christian hatred that is a normal part of Saudi grade school curriculum, one which is astonishing in it’s open attacks on non-Muslims. For an eye-opening look into KSA, see this excellent Frontline program; “Saudi Arabia Uncovered” (you know, that bunch that Howard Dean so vigorously defends as our great, cough, allies.) Try to watch the whole program if you can, but at least see time mark 23:54 for the part about their school books.

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/saudi-arabia-uncovered/

  15. desidude2 says

    Aug 21, 2016 at 6:18 am

    The islamophobia industry loves to paint those opposing islam as a well funded group They can not offer any proof of this, but the truth is the islamophobia industry is backed not only by the rich Saudis and other muslim nations, but also by filthy rich and evil George Soros. Also many in the mass media carry the water for them.

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