“The myth of a post-9/11 ‘backlash’ against Muslims is politically motivated and spread by groups such as the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), which presents itself as a civil rights group, but was founded to serve as a front organization for the terrorist group Hamas.”
There you have it.
“FBI Hate Crime Report: No Anti-Muslim Backlash,” by Mark Tapson, Truth Revolt, December 7, 2017 (thanks to the Geller Report):
The FBI’s most recent annual report of hate crime statistics confirms that the much-hyped “backlash” against American Muslims is a myth, according to the Gatestone Institute.
The most recent FBI report does reveal a 20% increase in hate crimes against Muslims from 2015 to 2016, appearing to confirm suspicions that the presidential election sparked anti-Muslim sentiment (in fact, the report reveals that there were increases in most categories of hate crimes, but none as high as anti-Muslim crimes). But as Gatestone notes, the FBI data tell a more complex story.
Although any instances of so-called hate crimes are unacceptable, the report does not demonstrate evidence for the relentless narrative from the left and their Islamic allies in Muslim Brotherhood legacy groups like CAIR that Muslims in the United States face widespread hatred and discrimination.
First, the FBI stats alone do not show the context of the rise in hate crimes and anti-Muslim incidents. Gatestone has the details:
In 2015 the FBI changed its method of classification. Before then, ethnicity- or nationality-spurred hate crimes were designated as Hispanic or non-Hispanic. The FBI subsequently revised that classification, breaking down hate crimes into a variety of possible categories. As a result, the most recent data is misleading, making the incidents in which Arabs or Muslims were targeted appear to be more numerous than in previous years.
Secondly, the widely cited “20 percent increase” in anti-Muslim hate crimes engenders a false assumption about the actual figures. The total of reported bias incidents of any kind in 2016 was 6,121; of those, 361 were directed at Arabs or Muslims. Although even a single such incident would be one too many, in a country whose population is approximately 325 million – including millions of Arabs and/or Muslims — it is hard to argue that the numbers are indicative of a “wave” of hatred sweeping over the nation, either prior to or since the rise of Trump, even if one accepts the assumption that hate crimes are under-reported.
Third, and even more important, is that FBI hate crime statistics from the past 15-16 years actually refute the working assumption — as reflected in the Time magazine piece — that after 9/11, America underwent a backlash against Islam. Evidence for this claim, both in that article and other that followed its lead, was primarily anecdotal.
Let us look at the actual data. In 2000, the FBI reported 28 instances of anti-Islamic crimes. In 2001 (the year of the 9/11 attacks), the total rose considerably — to 554 — but then went to down to 171 in 2002. It stayed at that level for most of the decade, dipping to 105 in 2008. In 2010, a year in which a controversy raged over ultimately aborted plans to build an Islamic center and mosque in place of one of the buildings that had been damaged by falling debris from the World Trade Center attacks, the number rose to 161. In 2014, it was 154.
The claim that the relatively small number of hate crimes can be attributed to under-reporting is implausible, given the cultural climate and plethora of media outlets eager to find evidence for Islamophobia. The lack of concrete evidence to support claims of Islamophobia is due to the fact that after 9/11 — and every other jihadist terrorist attack in America since then (such as the Boston Marathon bombing and the San Bernardino attack) — the U.S. government has gone out of its way to discourage anti-Muslim rhetoric and to differentiate the actions of a few fanatics from those of the law-abiding majority.
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The myth of a post-9/11 “backlash” against Muslims is politically motivated and spread by groups such as the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), which presents itself as a civil rights group, but was founded to serve as a front organization for the terrorist group Hamas. The effort to persuade the public that America is Islamophobic stemmed largely from the aim to shift the narrative about terrorism to that of an Islamist war on the West to one according to which Muslims are terrorized by and in the United States….
mummymovie says
Maybe this is precisely what we should be worried about: the LACK of anti-islam “backlash”, considering that there have been roughly 32,000 islamic jihad terror attacks globally since September 11, 2001.
mummymovie says
32,0000 lethal attacks, I might add.
Peter says
You definitely added
mummymovie says
Oops, I did indeed.
Damn zeros!
Georg says
Once again, as data shows the trope to be a falsehood it is shown to be what it is: anti-American propaganda. As it is false, CAIR must be held accountable.
Charles says
With the clearly muslim loving Berry Osama OUT of office, WHY HASN’T CAIR AND ALL IT’S ilk been put in prison????
Get rid of their whole LOT!
WorkingClassPost says
Also: What constitutes a ‘hate’ crime, is it looking in an unfriendly manner, as many ‘victims’ claim?
And what about increases against others, particularly the Jewish communities.
Has there not also been an increase of more than 20% of the Arab/Muslim population during this time, so the proportion of incidents may well be going down significantly.
Shmoovie says
“And what about increases against others, particularly the Jewish communities?”
Good question.
If CAIR & co. had their druthers, islam would take the hate-crime idea for itself, and the types of incidents to be considered ‘crimes of hate’ would widen from any imagined insult or simple unpleasantness that might occur between muslim and filthy kuffar. Followers would be the only victims, and any crime against an ‘other’ could not be considered hate-driven.
Charges for thee but not for me.
Cheryl says
Please do write a piece that will explain the nature of these hate crimes.
Rey Ybarra says
Why are the gangsters the council of all islamic radicals still around?
Cheer Bear Girl says
Muslims should simply return to their homelands if they feel unsafe.
Naildriver says
Some of this is merely semantics and wishful thinking, and as far as I’m concerned Islam’s enemies are far more extant than anyone wants to believe.
After all, Islam is the enemy to all non- Muslims, and once people realize what is moving in next door and understand the play book Muslims play by, they will concur.
To say so many are positive Islam is no threat, is almost as silly as saying x number believe in UFOs, Klingons or the unicorn as a viable immigrants to the USA.
Hate crime law is preposterous, since it is anybody’s game given the state’s preferences to a political circumstance.
Islam is this nation’s enemy, not because x number of people believe it so, but because factually it is.
The FBI can go to hell with these statistics and their treasonous supportive position to Islam they’ve posted upon their official sites, and scrubbing of all jihad or Islamic references to all manner of Muslim crimes, if they haven’t purged left over Obama appointees.
As for the crimes against Muslims for being devotees to this system, people should be judged not for ‘hate’ crimes but under what circumstances they were committed; for example, in matters of assault, did the Muslim invoke Islam in his or her defense? Did the perpetrator have any reasonable expectation the Muslim would respond with lethal force? Muslims are told by way of the Koran and clerics to use lethal force against those not Muslim for things as mundane as the expressing of insults to Mohammed or disrespecting the Koran.
If someone should say ‘Mohammed stinks’ to a Muslim’s playing his boom box of Islamic chants, while parading about in his garb, and the Muslim confronts the abuser in a hostile manner; the ensuing confrontation should be taken into account Islam’s built in incitements, it should be for the state to prove the offender was unaware whether the Muslim had capacity to do lethal violence in that Muslim’s defense of Islam, such that the other shoots the Muslim dead. It is a plausible defense to say lethal violence was expected if the Muslim participant in a confrontation was wearing garb that could hide a weapon.
Much like a ‘stand one’s ground law’. People in this country should not suffer the constant unknowing of which Muslim will attack, and who belongs to that apostate non violent camp, and which Muslim might respond with lethal force — since they all are directed by Islam’s most holy texts to do so. It would be fair to assume a non-Muslim’s free speech will be met with acid, a knife or gun.
Islam should be introduced to the ‘market place of ideas’ as everyone else, and it should be their burden to prove they pose no threat. Our freedoms should not be the consequence of their presence as is the trend.
St. Croix says
Hate crimes against Muslims, very low in number, this is absolutely true and proven. But the Muslims seem to be trying VERY HARD to turn that around, by their excessively very bad behaviour! Actually killing and attacking, no less! And by their constant whining, complaining, lying and criticizing the people who have taken them and given them a country where they could live in freedom. But they don’t want to receive even, they don’t want to ask, they DEMAND. Demand with the full belief it is their right to have it all their way and everyone has to hop to meet their demands. Or else.
Now I am educated about Islam, and why they act this way. The Koran and writings are expilcit, the Imams promote this attitude, as they are “the best of peoples.”
So the real wonder is the lack of hate crimes. It’s not their fault there is a real lack of hate crimes. One would expect hate crimes given their behaviour, and lots of them.
And “Islamophobia” is a word I hate. It is used all wrong. It should be used to indicate what it logically means, “fear of Islam.” Which is warranted under the circumstances, as Islam is a real and present danger, whether anyone knows it or not.