THE TRUTH ABOUT HATE CRIMES - AT 5:35 P.M. ET:  Reader Jacqueline Reckseit refers us to a collection of excellent material disproving the myth that Muslims in America face an onslaught.

The FBI compiles hate-crime statistics each year.  The latest year for which there are numbers is 2007.  Here is the FBI report.  Doesn't exactly paint a picture of a country drowning in anti-Muslim hysteria:

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias decreased overall in 2007 but still accounted for roughly 18 percent of total hate crimes, according to new statistics from the FBI.

In its 2007 Hate Crime Statistics report, the Federal Bureau of Investigation documented 1,477 offenses that were directed against a person's religion, down from 1,597 offenses in 2006.

More than a third of all hate crimes in 2007 were categorized as vandalism or property destruction.

Of all religious hate crimes in 2007, hate crimes directed at Catholics constituted 4 percent, down from 5 percent in 2006. The report also showed religiously based hate crime statistics for Protestants (4 percent), other religions (9.5 percent), followers of multiple religions (4.3 percent), and Atheists/Agnostics (0.4 percent).

Hate crimes against Jews were up with Jews accounting for 68.4 percent of religiously based hate crimes in 2007, more than four points higher than the 64.3 in 2006.

Hate crimes for Muslims, meanwhile, declined. Muslims accounted for 9 percent of all hate crimes motivated by religious bias in 2007, down from 12 to percent the previous year.  (Emphasis added by Urgent Agenda.)

COMMENT:  No nation, facing the attacks we faced on 9-11, has ever responded with such sanity.  There was no mob rule.  There were no mass attacks against Muslims, even Muslims associated with radical mosques.  We did not round up anyone who read the Koran.

In 2007, nine percent of hate crimes were directed against Muslims.  And nine percent of hate crimes were directed against Protestants and Catholics combined. 

And yet, some in the American elite tell us we're a hate-filled country and warn that we must control ourselves after Fort Hood.  They don't know America.  They don't want to.

November 11, 2009