on Saturday, April 20, 2013
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said hate incidents in Massachusetts and New York occurred following the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon.
CAIR press release
on Friday, March 8, 2013
Numerous spray-painted graffiti markings were discovered on the outside of the Guelph Muslim Society's mosque at 286 Water Street early Wednesday. The graffiti was painted between 9 p.m. Tuesday and 7 a.m. Wednesday. It contained derogatory references to Muslims along with inflammatory and threatening language.
"There are some comments specifically about the faith, about the religion," said Guelph Muslim Society president Muhammed Sayyed. "It's not something like a random act."
Police say the incident goes beyond simple mischief, which is why a specialized unit was brought in to investigate. "Due to … the type of information that was put on those walls, we're moving it upstairs to our hate crimes unit," said Const. Mike Gatto.
Sayyed says much of the vandalism was quickly cleaned up because the society doesn't want people, especially children, to have to look at it.
A security camera outside the mosque was able to capture two suspects.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 519-824-1212.
See also The Loop, 7 March 2013
And CAIR-CAN press release, 7 March 2013
on Friday, December 14, 2012
Hate crimes against perceived Muslims, which jumped up 50% in 2010 largely as a result of anti-Muslim propagandizing, remained at relatively high levels last year, according to 2011 hate crime statistics released today by the FBI.
The bureau reported that there were 157 reported anti-Muslim hate crimes in 2011, down slightly from the 160 recorded in 2010. The 2011 crimes occurred during a period when Islam-bashing propaganda, which initially took off in 2010, continued apace.
The FBI statistics, which are compilations of state numbers, are notoriously understated. Two Department of Justice studies have indicated that the real level of hate crimes in America is some 20-30 times the number reported in the FBI statistics, in part because some 56% of hate crimes are never reported to police and more than half of those that are are mischaracterized as non-hate crimes. Nevertheless, the FBI statistics can be used to get a sense of general trends.
Last year saw continued high levels of anti-Muslim propaganda such as the crusade by some against the alleged Muslim plan to impose religious Shariah law on the United States. There were a number of local battles over the construction of new mosques, and several were attacked by apparent Islamophobes.
Southern Poverty Law Center, 10 December 2012
on Friday, June 22, 2012
Interviewed on Fox News yesterday, Republican Congressman Peter King justified the resumption of his hearings on the supposed radicalisation of Muslim Americans:
What I am very concerned about is that while the overwhelming majority of Muslims are good people, the fact is even though Muslims are 1 percent of the population, almost 90 percent of the terrorist crimes are carried out by the Muslim community. And there are not enough people in the community willing to step forward and speak out against this and cooperate with law enforcement.
Via Eli Clifton at Think Progress, who adds the following graph:
Cf. "All terrorists are Muslims ... except the 94% that aren't", Loonwatch, 20 January 2010
