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The peeing on the rug was a solitary incident, and was not a hate crime.

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The cabbie slasher was not a right wing Christian hater.

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Sunnyvale: Man attacked for being Muslim, public safety officers say


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Sunnyvale: Man attacked for being Muslim, public safety officers say

By Lisa Fernandez

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Posted: 06/14/2010 02:59:34 PM PDT
Updated: 06/14/2010 09:49:40 PM PDT


Sunnyvale public safety officers are trying to track down two young men who struck someone in the face on a busy street, apparently simply for being a Muslim man who was wearing a black cap and holding a Koran.

He might be the third victim in Santa Clara County this year to fall victim to a reported anti-Muslim crime, according to the county's Office of Human Relations. Last year there were none.

"They asked him if he was Jewish, and when he said, "No, I'm a Muslim,' they told him that was worse, you must be a terrorist," said Capt. Dave Verbrugge, a Sunnyvale Public Safety Department spokesman.

Some Jewish men wear a skull cap called a yarmulke or kippah, and some Muslim men customarily wear a cap called a kufi or taqiyah.

The attackers approached the 40-something man on El Camino Real at Sycamore Terrace on Friday. source

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ORIGINAL: luckydawg
I do remember you claiming there were no Church Burnings, nor Church Protests, which I disproved with 30 seconds of looking.

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But please post the links to multiple Prayer rug peeings.

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The simple fact is that all evidence supports a increase in the rate of hate crimes against Muslims,

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The simple fact is that all evidence supports a increase in the rate of hate crimes against Muslims,

Anecdotes do not- cannot- of themselves amount to evidence of an increase.

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Without a real-time system for tabulating national crime statistics, it will be a while before we know whether that trend was reversed in 2010. But “anecdotally there is no question that we are seeing a spate of anti-Muslim hate crimes,” says Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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What are the actuall number of Islamophobic incidents? You got any data on that? Maybe I missed it in the list of fake and exagerated stuff you posted. But what is the documented rate in increase in hate crimes against Muslims, adn how does it compare to the rate of hate crimes vs others? and the Crime rate in general?

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The simple fact is that all evidence supports a increase in the rate of hate crimes against Muslims,

Anecdotes do not- cannot- of themselves amount to evidence of an increase.

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Sunnyvale: Man attacked for being Muslim, public safety officers say

By Lisa Fernandez

lfernandez****mercurynews.com
Posted: 06/14/2010 02:59:34 PM PDT
Updated: 06/14/2010 09:49:40 PM PDT


Sunnyvale public safety officers are trying to track down two young men who struck someone in the face on a busy street, apparently simply for being a Muslim man who was wearing a black cap and holding a Koran.

He might be the third victim in Santa Clara County this year to fall victim to a reported anti-Muslim crime, according to the county's Office of Human Relations. Last year there were none.


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you go from none to three, okay, you may have a point. Although in the school I went to, 3 is greater than 0

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Without a real-time system for tabulating national crime statistics, it will be a while before we know whether that trend was reversed in 2010. But “anecdotally there is no question that we are seeing a spate of anti-Muslim hate crimes,” says Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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ORIGINAL: Elisabella
Just to be clear - is it your position that negative sentiment toward Muslims and Islam has not increased at all since 9/11?

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What are the actuall number of Islamophobic incidents? You got any data on that? Maybe I missed it in the list of fake and exagerated stuff you posted. But what is the documented rate in increase in hate crimes against Muslims, adn how does it compare to the rate of hate crimes vs others? and the Crime rate in general?

Just to be clear - is it your position that negative sentiment toward Muslims and Islam has not increased at all since 9/11?

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Temecula, CA: "Foes of proposed mosques have deployed dogs to intimidate Muslims holding prayer services and spray painted 'Not Welcome' on a construction sign." The AP also reported, "In Temecula, Calif., opponents brought dogs to protest a proposed 25,000-square-foot mosque that would sit on four acres next to a Baptist church. Opponents worry it will turn the town into haven for Islamic extremists, but mosque leaders say they are peaceful and just need more room to serve members." An August 19 Christian Science Monitor article further reported:

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An explosion and fire at a Jacksonville mosque is being investigated as a possible hate crime, prompting local religious leaders to condemn the arson as a “cowardly” act and issue calls for tolerance.

What happened Monday night has caused more emotional than physical damage to the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida.

The mosque’s vice chairman, Ashrad Shaikh , said he settled in Jacksonville 36 years ago because he felt welcome and safe here. Now he’s feeling fear and anger.

“I thought we were making so much progress … that we had started getting beyond tolerance to friendship,” Shaikh said Tuesday. “We have never, ever had anything that even came close to what we had last night.”

Someone planted a device that exploded around 9:30 p.m. behind the mosque on St. Johns Bluff Road. At the time, about 60 people were inside for evening prayers.source

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Hate crimes (also known as bias-motivated crimes) occur when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her perceived membership in a certain social group, usually defined by racial group, religion, sexual orientation, disability, class, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender, gender identity, or political affiliation.

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Sep. 07, 2010
DOJ Investigating At Least 5 Anti-Muslim Acts
Justice Department Investigating At Least 5 Anti-Muslim Acts In 4 States; Holder Meets Clerics

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(AP) WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department is investigating a handful of apparently anti-Muslim incidents in four states, including the stabbing of a Muslim cab driver in New York City.

FBI agents and civil rights division investigators also are looking into vandalism and other incidents at mosques or mosque construction sites in Arlington, Texas; Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Madera, Calif.; and Waterport, N.Y.

The open criminal investigations were confirmed by civil rights division spokeswoman Xochitl (SOH-chee) Hinojosa in response to a query from The Associated Press.

The suspected anti-Muslim incidents, following the uproar over a planned mosque near ground zero in New York and Saturday's planned burning of copies of the Quran at a church in Gainesville, Fla., were the topics of a meeting Tuesday between Attorney General Eric Holder and Muslim and other religious leaders.

Holder called the planned Quran burning, to coincide with the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, "idiotic and dangerous," the religious leaders said following the private meeting.source

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So you quote Media Matters Jilf?!?!?

your bolded quote is from Media Matters. Its political swill.


I strongly disagree with your Anti American assertion that charging = guilt.


so far 4 of the 6 cases you have cited were either BS or exxagerated.

Thats a fact.

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There were 1,606 hate crime offenses motivated by religious bias in 2008. A breakdown of these offenses shows:

* 65.7 percent were anti-Jewish.
* 13.2 percent were anti-other religion.
* 7.7 percent were anti-Islamic.
* 4.7 percent were anti-Catholic.
* 4.2 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
* 3.7 percent were anti-Protestant.
* 0.9 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc. (Based on Table 1.)