Posted on 08/02/2005 2:58:28 PM PDT by traumer
Faith hate crimes have soared by 600% in London since the July 7 bombings.
Alarming figures from Scotland Yard showed that there were 269 such attacks compared to just 40 in the same three-and-a-half-week period in 2004.
In the three days following the London bombings, there were 68 religious hate crimes in the capital; there where none in the same period 12 months earlier.
The attacks included verbal and physical assaults and damage to property including mosques.
Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur said: "There is no doubt that incidents impacting on the Muslim community have increased."
He said most of the incidents were low-level abuse or minor assaults but they had a great "emotional impact" on communities.
And he warned: "It can lead to these communities completely retreating and not engaging at a time when we want their engagement and support."
The figures came as Home Office Minister Hazel Blears began a tour of Muslim communities to discussing ways of improving relations with them.
Speaking in Oldham, Lancashire, she said that contrary to suggestions British Transport Police chief constable Ian Johnston, racial profiling was not the way to find suspects.
Do their figures include the bombings themselves? Somehow, I doubt it.
I wonder if the terror bombings made the count. Or does Islamic hatred not figure into the figures?
Good point...
Gee! Ya think?
You reap what you sow.
Wonder when there will be an article about muslims hatred and killing of Jews and Christians. Oops, what am I thinking ... it don't count, that's acceptable.
Cool...
I had the same thought as the rest of you. Only offenses against Islam appear to qualify as intolerant.
Boo Hoo, when Muslim bodies start piling up then someone can keep score.
And what the hell did they expect was going to happen? I read where there were a total of 16 bombs that either exploded or that were found. Just four bombs exploded and 52 people died and hundreds more injured, think of the carnage if all of them had exploded.
If there were about a dozen cell members, I wonder how many were in the support groups?
Yep, last month 59 people died as a result of religious hate crimes. Perpetrated by Muslims.
The bottom line is:
Muslims: 52 kills
Non-Muslims: Zero kills.
I didn't used to hate folks jsut because of their religion.
The times they are a changing.
If we start caling the terrorists by the name "fundamental religious extremist" or creationists we can probably get the left on board for this War against Fundamentalism, and maybe they'd even allow religious profiling. If they can profile Catholics in determining SCOTUS nominees, we should be able to get them on board.
If only the terrorists were radical Catholics, the war would be so much easier.
In the pre-9/11 world, Bodansky said, jihadists could count on 250,000 individuals trained and willing to die, and 2.5 million5 million people willing to help them in one way or another.
He cited intelligence estimates from this summer that suggest that as many as 500,000-750,000 people are willing and trained to die, 10 million are willing to actively support them, short of killing, while another 50 million are willing to support such a movement financially.
http://www.worldthreats.com/al-qaeda_terrorism/AQ%20WMD%20Attack%20Soon.htm
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