Hate crimes against Muslims hit highest mark since 2001 Hate crimes against Muslims spiked last year to their highest level in more than a decade — an increase that experts and advocates say was fueled by anger over terrorist attacks and anti-Islam rhetoric on the campaign trail. Law enforcement agencies across the country reported 257 anti-Muslim incidents in 2015, up nearly 67 percent from the year before, according to FBI data released Monday. That is significant in its own right, but even more so in historical context. The last time the FBI recorded more than 160 anti-Muslim incidents was in 2001, when it reported 481. That was the year that Islamist militants attacked the World Trade Center, killing thousands and sparking a wave of anti-Muslim incidents. Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said that he believed the anti-Muslim rhetoric that came out of the presidential campaign was to blame and that he feared there will be more hate crimes this year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...8218e2-aa95-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html
MUSLIM TERRORISM RELATED DEATHS ON US SOIL IS ALSO AT AN ALL TIME HIGH SINCE 2001 https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/american-attacks.aspx
Thanks, Bush. Back in 2002 in dozens of ESPN board threads, the warmongers (between posts threatening to kill us...many were already stationed in the Middle East, eager for blood) screamed that going to war would intimidate "bad" Muslims and decrease overseas "terrorist" events. We (very politely, out of fear for our lives) said no, war will anger all Muslims worldwide and greatly increase such events. The warmongers (who couldn't spell) would call us stupid and other names. Within a few months, we were proven right about everything, not just that (e.g. it won't be a short war, they'll fight back...warmongers always expect no resistance to their mighty egos).
Still not nearly as high as the terror comitted by white Christian males but you can go ahead and post the link from that punk ass source.
But there is a correlation between muslim hate crimes in response to muslim terrorist deaths. White christian males have nothing to do with it
We better fear those white Christian males by golly! They may go ape shit and blow up a pulse night club or shoot everyone at a holiday party! hell they may even go on a knife attack and cleaver people for no reason!!
Oh the positive, more than 150,000 people joined the American Civil Liberties Union in the past week. Amnesty International and Human Rights Campaign have also seen a big membership jump. People are not going to lie down and take it.
Think about it.... If there weren't fewer hate crimes under Obama following the heels of the Bush admin, we wouldn't be talking about a sudden spike. It'd be par for the course. It'd be a straight line connecting three points on a chart, rather than a v-shape. Thanks, Obama!
BTW, the "white lash" is an easy out. It very likely is real, and a reason some voted Trump over Clinton, but it's only one of many reasons Trump was elected. The Clinton-biased media comes up with stupid things like this to be a blanket excuse, rather than admitting that maybe a lot of America doesn't trust Hillary any more than they'd trust Trump, that she's corrupt, a liar, etc. It's pointing fingers and putting blame/guilt/shame on those that preferred Trump over Clinton. People have different priorities. The Rust Belt has been hurting economically for years, and maybe, just maybe, people bought into the ideas that Trump presented them, and improving their local economies was a bigger priority than continuing the progress we've made socially (especially if you don't buy as heavily into Trump's alleged world of hate that the media wants you to buy into). I reiterate, I am no Trump fan. But I am also skeptical of the majority of the anti-Trump sentiment I see in the news, and choose to give him a chance as President-elect, and hope he will be a leader for our country. I'd give Clinton the same benefit of the doubt if she were elected. I'm never so entrenched in my own beliefs that I cannot see the other side, and can acknowledge that just because I believe one thing, ultimately, there's a chance my beliefs may not be correct.
They also shot themselves in the foot with how they handled the primary. They disenfranchised a lot of long-time Democrats with how that went down. That would explain the low turnout.
I think Bernie would have won the election, if he had gotten the nomination. I think Hillary might have won the election if things hadn't gotten so ugly in the primary. Enough Dems would have sucked it up and voted, but the fact that they essentially rigged the primary was just too much for many loyal Democrats. I saw a funny meme that's relevant though. A lot of people are pissed at the electoral college, but nobody is talking about the "super delegate" bullshit that created this whole mess in the first place.
FAIL. Obama's administration has created the greatest divide in race relations, not to mention the additional hate crimes against the law enforcement.
