Year after year, FBI hate crime statistics belie the establishment media myth that Muslims in the U.S. are subjected to widespread persecution, harassment, and discrimination. No targeting of any innocent person, Muslim or non-Muslim, is ever justified; the massive societal concern (and obsession on campuses) with “Islamophobia” and relative indifference to anti-Semitism is not reflected by the facts. It’s fueled by manipulative propaganda designed to deflect attention away from jihad activity and stymie counterterror efforts.
“FBI: Anti-Semitic incidents surge, Muslim hate crimes drop in 2017,” by Joseph Wolkin, World Israel News, November 23, 2018 (thanks to David):
According to data released by the FBI on Tuesday, anti-Semitic incidents increased by 37 percent last year, totalling 938 reports of anti-Jewish crime, excluding non-reported events.
The data revealed also showed a drop in Islamophobic crimes by 11 percent in 2017. There were 273 such incidents throughout the year.
Overall, hate crimes were up by 17 percent in 2017, marking the third straight year the FBI reported an increase in such cases.
The FBI said the spike is partially due to more police departments sharing hate crime information with the organization….
The number of hate crimes in 2017 increased to a total of 7,175, including attacks based on race, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation – up from 6,121 in 2016.
Anti-Semitic crimes last year totaled about 13 percent of all reported incidents….
Angemon says
How many of those “crimes” were, in reality, a mere report on what islamic texts actually mandate?…
Walter Sieruk says
The above article is a reminder of the wisdom found in the speech given by a former US President, William Howard Taft, For in that speech President Taft declared “Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
Pam Minnick says
When will someone call BS on Islamophobia? Nobody who has a phobia to Islam will go anywhere near anything or anyone Islamic. Islamophobia gives muslims power and that power needs to be removed. When we let others change what words really mean to benefit theirselves we are dumbing down our country, and letting vile violent groups feel they can do as they please.
Obbop says
You are correct!!! And the tripe spewed by CAIR, various Islamic groups across the USA and individual Moslems is slurped up by tyrannical elite-owned media with their Marxist New World Order open-border globalist anti-USA and anti-Western civilization agendas and aired and printed constantly so as to indoctrinate the masses of USA citizens into accepting what may lead to the destruction of our ways of life. War has been declared upon We, the People and Jihad Watch and many others are striving to counter the tyrannical elite-class traitors spitting upon We, the People.