Loading ...FBI: 1597 hate crimes motivated by religious bias in 2006
flockwoodJews, Muslims primary targets of religious bigots, FBI reports.
“Religious bias
Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,597 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:
64.3 percent were anti-Jewish.
12.0 percent were anti-Islamic.
8.8 percent were anti-other religion.
5.5 percent were anti-multiple religions, (i.e., groups of individuals of varying religions).
5.1 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.9 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism.”
March 31st, 2008 at 5:26 pm
This is horse manure! If you want to get down to the nitty-gritty, Muslems and Jews are much more the ‘religious bigots’ than the Christians, if you want to see ‘intolerance’, quit lookin at Alabama and Mississippi, and start with the middle east!
March 31st, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Mike, we look to you to set the standard for tolerance on this blog.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:18 pm
The Jews I know are all great conversationalists that have studied religion and are eager to share their knowledge with you in an unconditional form. I don’t know if I know any Muslims. I know some boys from Alabama that keep telling themselves they are good guys. I don’t know who they are trying to convince, themselves or me.
March 31st, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Hey, I’m a redneck Baptist, I won’t lie, but I’m also an American, I’ve never favored or agreed with keeping anybody from their spiritual beliefs, just as long as they aren’t violent. The F.B.I. is really no better than the gestapo, they’ve stuck their nose where it don’t belong way too many times, especially down south. I have to sneer when I think of Kennedy integrating our schools, but yet several years after he was assasinated, the public schools in Boston wasn’t integrated until 1974, who are the ‘bad guys’? But yet it’s the south that constantly gets the dirt threw in our face, them freedom marchers would of done well to keep their hindend up north and mend their fences instead of meddlin in our affairs and business, it’s pathetic! In 1991, our boys couldn’t even put up a Christmas tree in their tent, because they might offend the Saudi’s we were helping protect, now you tell me whose the ‘religiuos bigots’ or ‘intolerant’ ones?
April 1st, 2008 at 6:04 am
Mike, if you think that the FBI is in any way similar to the Gestapo, you are truly ignorant of history.
As for the complaint that the Civil Rights laws applied to some states differently than others, that’s because of the South’s history of slavery and Jim Crow laws until it became necessary for such events as federal troops coming in and forcing the integration of schools in Little Rock. While there are plenty of bigots in Boston, it was the institutionalized practices in the South which finally led to federal remedial action. And that remedial action came close to 100 years after Reconstruction, so it’s not like the South didn’t have time to address this problem. Unfortunately, the way the South handled it for decades was through the Ku Klux Klan, voter suppression, and segregation.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:34 am
They are Larry, hey, I don’t agree with Jim Crow myself, or keeping any person down if they have a good heart and work ethic, but this activating the national guard, the wire tapping, which by the way, not everybody in the south was responsible for some of the wrong and injustice that went on. I have no problem with anyone having a fair deal, but this is 2008, not 1968, you have to admit, some of the stuff today isn’t right, that mess back yonder doesn’t apply to me, I was born 1960, not 1920.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:45 am
Mike, you say that this is 2008, not 1968, which is true enough, but earlier you said that the freedom marchers should have stayed up north. The freedom marchers were in the 1960′s. The way we progressed from 1968 conditions to 2008 conditions is by having people force change, however unwelcome it may have been at the time.