gourimoko
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He did.
Oh... k.. I didn't realize those were racially, ethnically, or anti-religious attacks.
Kinda like Charlie Hebdo attacks right? Oh wait, but then I remember one of the victims was an Arab-Muslim. Hmm..
In the latter part of last year The Washington Times produced a letter written by Hasan to the pope which was titled “A Warning To Pope Francis, Members Of The Vatican, And Other Religious Leaders Around the World,” in which he embraced Jihad throughout.
"Embracing jihad" doesn't make you hateful; but I'm sure there was some hateful stuff in that letter.
Hell, I'm sure a guy who shot 13 people is a pretty hateful dude.
He has claimed numerous times to be a "soldier of Allah" which coincides with hate against any religion, race, or creed opposite of Islam.
No, it doesn't. My brother was a "soldier of Allah," and he wasn't a hateful person either. Just as my best friend's church group would call themselves "soldiers for Christ."
Was Hasan a hateful dude though? Yeah, probably. But when Army recruiters go out saying "Fight for Jesus, Soldiers for Christ," is that hateful too? I don't think so. I think it's stupid, but not hateful.
Quite frankly, I'm not sure why it matters
Then why write this long ass post?
but I find it interesting that you compare an insane lone gunman whom happens to be Muslim, to another insane person and point to it as if it means something.
Actually I didn't. Q-Tip did.
What's interesting is the fact that you thought it was me who brought it up, and then went out of your way to connect me to Hasan as if I'm sympathizing with ISIS or Al Qaeda.
Get a grip.
If you're going to say that the white guy who killed people because of their enthicity is apart of a bigger problem,
This came from where exactly? Lol.....
You got problems dude.. WTF are you talking about?
then you should be completely blown away by the acts of mass murder by people of Muslim faith in the United States (whom also happen to be of Arabic decent), even though they are 8.1% of the population.
Muslims aren't remotely close to 8.1% of the population, and murders by Muslims aren't remotely close to even being statistically significant.
Jesus Christ... But dont take my word for it.. Let's ask Wikipedia:
"Islam in the United States is the third-largest faith in America, afterChristianity and Judaism, representing 0.6% of the population."
So I guess that makes you out to be a liar?
This sounds like some more "no-go zone" fear mongering bullshit.
There have been more hate crimes that deal with religion by the Muslim population than by any other religion in the last 20 years.
Yeah, this is pure racist nonsense. No there hasn't. Not remotely. Not with Muslims being either victims or perpetrators.
The plurality of hate crimes in America have been and continue to be against Blacks, by Whites. In second are gays, by Whites. In third, Jews by Whites. Fourth, Whites by Blacks.
When drilling down and focusing by religion, anti-Muslim hate crimes are second to anti-Jewish hate crimes.
When focusing on the ethnicity or religion of the perpetrator, Muslims represent less than 0.1% of over 52,000 hate crime prosecutions since 2002.
When we normalize per capita, we see that hate crimes committed by a particular group isn't all that different between groups and no one group has a monopoly on hate. With that, Whites are still ahead of the pack with respect to Blacks and Latinos. Muslims are not a statistically significant proportion of the sample.
The majority target of that less than 0.1% of Muslim perpetrators of hate crimes? Jews and Sikhs.
tl;dr... you're lying. But don't take my world for it...
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Among the report’s findings for 2013:
- Of the 5,928 incidents reported, six were multiple-bias hate crime incidents involving 12 victims.
- Of the 5,922 single bias incidents reported, the top three bias categories were race (48.5 percent), sexual orientation (20.8 percent), and religion (17.4 percent).
- Of the reported 3,407 single-bias hate crime offenses that were racially motivated, 66.4 were motivated by anti-black or African-American bias, and 21.4 percent stemmed from anti-white bias.
- 60.6 percent of the reported 1,402 hate crime offenses based on sexual orientation were classified as anti-gay (male) bias.
- Law enforcement agencies identified 5,814 known offenders in the 5,928 bias-motivated incidents. Of these offenders, 52.4 percent were white and 24.3 percent were black or African-American.
- Of the 6,933 hate crime offenses reported in 2013, 63.9 percent were crimes against persons (e.g., intimidation, assaults, rapes, murders), while 35 percent were property crimes (mostly acts of destruction/damage/vandalism). The rest were considered crimes against society (like drug offenses or prostitution).
Again, I think Hasan is just a nutbag
Agreed. But I think Hasan's act is more significant because it was an act of terrorism in my book.
and I also think the white guy in this case is just a nutbag
..No doubt.
but that's without delving into the problems in the Middle East.
I don't know why or how the Middle East has anything to do with it.. that's why I thought Q-Tip's mentioning of Hasan was weird; just like you did. But you didn't quote him, you quoted me.
Why are Muslims, that happen to of Arab decent, committing more acts of violence based on religion in this country? It's a fair question that has an equally fair answer.
When did you stop beating your wife?
It's not a fair question because it's not based in reality. It's bullshit; racist bullshit, and it's beneath civilized discussion.