They’re doing this despite the fact that “apart from some incidents, residents say their worst fears about a backlash in their own community never materialized.”
In reality, Jews are targeted for hate attacks twice more often than Muslims; where is any city in the United States doing anything about anti-Semitism? Do you have to pull off a terror massacre to get some love around here?
“One year after San Bernardino attack, city aims to prevent Muslim hate crimes,” Associated Press, December 1, 2016 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
Almost a year after her father was killed in the San Bernardino terror attack last December, Kate Bowman etched the word “love” in yellow chalk on the sidewalk outside a mosque.
It was just one of the messages of peace the 15-year-old Lutheran and her mother have left in an effort to unify Muslims and Christians in the hardscrabble city east of Los Angeles against the violence that many community members feared might divide them.
“What angered me most after December 2 was the amount of hate speech going on,” Bowman said, recalling the day her father, Harry Bowman, and 13 others were killed by husband-and-wife assailants at a lunch meeting for county health inspectors in San Bernardino.
“I just kind of didn’t understand how people could be that ignorant about another religion” and blame an entire community, Bowman said.
Bowman’s actions were among efforts in the city to counter what some feared would be a prolonged, hate-filled backlash. Victims’ families, such as Bowman’s, encouraged dialogue and tolerance. The Muslim community undertook its own campaign to educate neighbors about Islam. Clergy organized interfaith talks.
Nationwide, hate crimes against Muslims were up last year and Donald Trump frequently used heated rhetoric about Muslims on the campaign trail.
As San Bernardino prepares to mark the anniversary of the onslaught, a Somali-born Muslim student carried out an attack at Ohio State University and police in Los Angeles met with Muslim leaders to condemn hateful letters sent to mosques in the city and elsewhere.
In San Bernardino, apart from some incidents, residents say their worst fears about a backlash in their own community never materialized.
“I think as a community it felt good not to be divided,” said Brian Levin, a professor at California State University, San Bernardino who studies hate crimes. “And I think in other parts of the country they had the luxury of hating when we didn’t.”…

Angemon says
I’d be angry that my father was taken from this world before his time. But to each their own priorities, I guess…
gravenimage says
Spot on, Angemon.
DFD says
You know, I think somebody in authority should tell the Ms that the easiest way to be free that horrible fear of an anti-Muslim backlashes would be for their ‘community’ to bring those Jihadists to heel.
Errr… Yeah, there has to be something in my coffee.
Allan says
She should have written the word “loves” outside that masjid. Quotation marks would have been appropriate, as would a reference to Koran 9:4.
Jack Diamond says
“The Muslim community undertook its own campaign to educate neighbors about Islam. Clergy organized interfaith talks.” Success:
“I just kind of didn’t understand how people could be that ignorant about another religion” and blame an entire community, Bowman said.”
Maybe someday the 15-yr old will understand that she is being lied to and that it is an insult to her father to deny the reasons for his murder, to miss the meaning of his murder, to not hold the ideology behind it (and motivation for it) responsible. To hold his Muslim murderers and their Islamic beliefs accountable instead of giving it and that Muslim community she worries so much about a pass.
Undaunted says
There are other lies being told about San Bernardino. A recent after-action review done by a federally funded police group told a bald-faced lie when it lauded SBPD for getting into the building to find and engage the shooters just two minutes after arriving on scene. The truth can easily be determined from the 9-11 radio traffic available online, which tells us that that two-minute response was actually more than six minutes and may have been as many as nine minutes.
SBPD fucked up and got lucky because the shooters were already gone by the time they arrived. That’s the truth.
gravenimage says
Grim information, Undaunted–but it does not surprise. I don’t think most police and sheriff’s departments are really prepared to deal with Jihad terror attacks.
Carolyne says
She should have written the word “Bacon” on the sidewalk in red chalk.
mccode says
“I just kind of didn’t understand how people could be that ignorant about another religion”
Perfectly describes the naivety of Ms. Bowman, in her own words, although referring not to herself but the “unwashed masses”. What myopia.
somehistory says
Hasn’t she heard that it was her father’s fault for having Christmas decorations that so upset the feelings of the mass murderers that they just had to kill him and the others?
Does she blame her father for having gone to the party where there would be decorations making moslim mass murderers angry enough to kill him? And she thinks those who have hatred for islam are in the wrong, even though it is the cause, the motive, the basis…for all of the murderous attacks, like the one where her own father was murdered?
This is disgusting and stupid to the point of, a normal person is just beyond words to explain or describe the feelings it gives.
Authorities may have a *hate crimes law* on their books. But it is not a crime, and never will be a crime, to hate evil. islam is evil. islam is bad.
The Bible commands those who love God, to “hate what is bad.” Even our God “hates” and sees things as “detestable.”
God “hates a lying tongue” and “haughty eyes” and “hands that shed innocent blood,” and “a heart devising wicked schemes,” and “feet that hurry to rush into evil,” and “a false witness that pours out lies,” and “a PERSON who stirs up conflict (trouble) in a community.” These are “detestable” to Him.
There are hated by anyone who has a sense of morals and ethics and honesty, but especially those who know and believe that God sees them as evil.
Does this kid not see that islam makes a practice of, and teaches and commands, those very things…in order to force everyone to bow to its evil?
Anne Smith says
Lenin had a word for these deluded people – the “useful idiots”.
Yousef says
Hey there somehistory.. Couldyou provide some references for the following citations, many thanks.
The Bible commands those who love God, to “hate what is bad.” Even our God “hates” and sees things as “detestable.” God “hates a lying tongue” and “haughty eyes” and “hands that shed innocent blood,” and “a heart devising wicked schemes,” and “feet that hurry to rush into evil,” and “a false witness that pours out lies,” and “a PERSON who stirs up conflict (trouble) in a community.” These are “detestable” to Him.
somehistory says
Psalm 97:10, “Oh you lovers of God (Jehovah), hate evil ( what is bad).”
Proverbs 6:16-19. “There are six things that God does hate and seven that are detestable to Him…..”
and I put *person* in all caps to show it isn’t just the *actions* that God hates and finds detestable.
gravenimage says
One year after San Bernardino jihad massacre, city aims to prevent anti-Muslim hate crimes
………………………………
Well, they’ve done a damn good job, since there haven’t been any anti-Muslim hate crimes…
What are they doing to prevent the next Jihad massacre? Crickets…
eur says
Jihad massacre? nothing to do with islam!! muslims are victims always .There is a popular saying in Spanish that says: “Give power to a Muslim and you will really know him.” Up to that moment they are crying, always the same , our ancestors have left us expressions, sayings, popular expressions that perfectly reflect them. Expressions of hundreds of years ago that perfectly describe the Moors of today. They are the same ones who were expelled from the Iberian peninsula, the same ones that subjected for hundreds of years to the native polish. Nothing new .
mortimer says
How could most Americans be ignorant about Islam?
K.9.29 Fight them that believe not
K.9.73 Strive hard against unbelievers
K.9.123 Fight unbelievers that are near to you
Hadith 129.36.22 I have been commanded to fight the people until they bear witness that none has the right to be worshipped by Allah and that Mohammed is the Messenger of Allah.
rabrooks says
They actually got an entire town to believe that it was their fault that the muzzies sought to kill them? that’s “mental jihad” at it’s best!
But as always, no attempt to prevent attacks against Christians, Jews, Bhuddists etc…..
I still haven’t tripped over any of those mudslime bodies piled in the streets.
Creole Gumbo says
Maybe the problem is Lutheranism? Is it not the Lutherans who are busy resettling Muslims?
Robert_k says
Only in places like Californis where Hillary won big, can you have idiots like these when it comes to the menace of Islam.
Jack Holan says
I must admit it takes a very Rare Bird To come out and protect the very ideology that inspired the murderers of her father of 13 others for participating a celebratory gathering for another ideology ; that IS based on PEACE.
The daughter of Mr Bowman becoming the Champion Protector of Muslims after an ardent Jihadist murdered her father leaps off the page as very strange, indeed. It’s a shame that she isn’t out protesting the violent Jihadist Worldwide and within Muslim Countries of her Co-Religionists. The crime they’ve committed is not believing in Allah and Mohammed but Jesus so whole Villages are wiped out and Muslims burn the Church to the ground. Ms Bowman why aren’t you speaking about the Muslim Anti-Semitism on University Campuses across North America from verbal intimidation to physical assault that University Administrators ignore. I guess there is indeed only one side for you Ms Bowman.
John A. Marre says
The politicians don’t care if there’s another terrorist attack. They don’t care if innocent Americans are killed. What they really and deeply care about is if someone says the word “towelhead” around a Muslim. That really gets them rip-roaring mad inside.
Mirren10 says
”Bowman’s actions were among efforts in the city to counter what some feared would be a prolonged, hate-filled backlash. Victims’ families, such as Bowman’s, encouraged dialogue and tolerance. The Muslim community undertook its own campaign to educate neighbors about Islam.”
The mohammedans are laughing themselves sick behind your back, you stupid little airhead.
Carolyne says
There is never a backlash against Muslims in general, even after one of their number has committed heinous crimes. These backlash fears are manufactured by left-wing idiots who want to feel guilty. Loretta Lynch said that her worst nightmare was that Americans would criticize Islam but that she would prosecute them to the limit of the law. Well, since we are free to criticize them, at least for now, I guess someone pointed out the First Amendment to Loretta and she backtracked. She will be leaving soon, kicked out with the rest of the sludge when the swamp is drained. Happy landing, Loretta, you can join Eric Holder in the has been basket. The basket is now empty of “Deplorables, so there is room for you two. “
somehistory says
All there ever is, is the *frontlash* by moslims, raping, stabbing, shooting, bombing, beheading, running-over and screaming about their satanic *rights* to kill all who won’t bow.
Who speaks out for the victims of *front-lash*? Only those who see islam’s wild beast for the evil that it is.
Mr. Spencer, Mr. Raymond Ibrahim, and others are speaking out for those already victims and warning of more victims to come from moslim frontlash
Rob Ronzio says
Heads chopped off and body parts flying through the air looks so peaceful especially when brought to you by the cult of peace islam.