Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Hate Crimes Against Jews and Muslims

Supposing we acquiesce in the 'hate crimes' terminology, here are some interesting statistics from the FBI for 2013:

Religious bias

Of the 1,223 victims of anti-religious hate crimes:

  • 60.3 percent were victims of crimes motivated by their offenders’ anti-Jewish bias.
  • 13.7 percent were victims of anti-Islamic (Muslim) bias.
  • 6.1 percent were victims of anti-Catholic bias.
  • 4.3 percent were victims of bias against groups of individuals of varying religions (anti-multiple religions, group).
  • 3.8 percent were victims of anti-Protestant bias.
  • 0.6 percent were victims of anti-Atheist/Agnostic bias.
  • 11.2 percent were victims of bias against other religions (anti-other religion). (Based on Table 1.)

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