Religious Bias Hate Crimes

[markseven]

I cringe at the term hate crime.

You don't feel it that violence based purly on the victim's race and/or religion warrants a harsher sentence or special consideration?

[z31maniac]

I cringe at the term hate crime.

[markseven]

You know whats crazy. The Jewish religion makes up a super small majority of the worlds population. I think I saw once that it was less than 1%. I think that muslims will be challenging the jews pretty soon. Should be fun

Challenging them in what way? From what I've seen, Muslims, Jews and Christians coexist peacefully here in the States. I think the crimes against Jews are carried out by white supremacists / anti-Semites. As a race, blacks are the target of hate crimes (by a large margin), again, carried out by white supremacists.

Jewish population in the US: 2.2% as of 2008.

[reelop19]

You know whats crazy. The Jewish religion makes up a super small majority of the worlds population. I think I saw once that it was less than 1%. I think that muslims will be challenging the jews pretty soon. Should be fun

[markseven]

According to the FBI website, there were 1,606 hate crime offenses motivated by religious bias [reported] 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.

Add Catholic and Protestant, and you get 8.4% against Christians, a little bit higher than crimes against Muslims. By far, Jews still take the brunt of it.

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2008/incidents.html