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====Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes====
====Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes====
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According to FBI hate-crime statistics, hate crimes directed against Muslims "remain relatively rare" in the United states,<ref>Michael Doyle - [{{Reference archive|1=http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/27/2165894/hate-crimes-against-muslims-rare.html|2=2011-04-18}} FBI data: Hate crimes against Muslims rare] - The Miami Herald, August 27, 2010</ref> with gays, lesbians and caucasians more frequently a target than the followers of Islam. Jewish victims of hate crimes also outnumber Muslim victims by a ratio of almost 9 to 1, and anti-Muslim incidents only account for a tiny 1.3% of all hate crimes. Even anti-Christian (Catholic/Protestant) incidents outnumber those perpetrated against Muslims in America. Some of the cases listed in this article also put into doubt the truth behind all 105 reported incidents.  
In attempting to deceive people into believing that they are being persecuted around the world for their faith, many Muslims have been caught fabricating anti-Muslim hate crimes. This is particularly important to some of them, hoping to paint the persecutor as the persecuted and shifting focus away from the millions who face real persecution at the hands of Islam. It is also useful in creating an atmosphere of fear among the general Muslim population, gaining the sympathy of non-Muslims, and shaming vocal critics of Islam into silence.


Additionally, a July 2011 Pew Global Attitudes survey found that a "greater percentage of Western publics now see relations between themselves and Muslims as generally good" whilst, "as in the past, Muslims express more unfavorable opinions about Christians than Americans or Europeans express about Muslims."<ref>[{{Reference archive|1=http://pewresearch.org/pubs/2066/muslims-westerners-christians-jews-islamic-extremism-september-11|2=2011-07-23}} Muslim-Western Tensions Persist] - Pew Research Center, July 21, 2011</ref> Such findings lead many to ask, who are the ones suffering from a "phobia"? This is a very important question. On an international scale, it is the Christians who are the world's most persecuted religious group, and this persecution is mainly from Muslims.<ref>[{{Reference archive|1=http://www.civitas.org.uk/press/prChristianophobia.htm|2=2013-01-05}} Christianity at risk of wipe-out in the Middle East, warns new Civitas study] - Civitas: The Institute for the Study of Civil Society, December 23, 2012</ref> Likewise, there are 7 countries in the world where the state can execute you for being atheist. Every single one is officially Islamic.<ref name="athper">Max Fisher - [{{Reference archive|1=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/10/the-seven-countries-where-the-state-can-execute-you-for-being-atheist/|2=2012-12-22}} The seven countries where the state can execute you for being atheist] - The Washington Post, December 10, 2012</ref><ref name="iheudec102012">"[http://www.iheu.org/files/IHEU%20Freedom%20of%20Thought%202012.pdf Freedom of Thought 2012: A Global Report on Discrimination Against Humanists, Atheists and the Non-religious]", The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), December 10, 2012</ref>
According to FBI hate-crime statistics, hate crimes directed against Muslims "remain relatively rare" in the United states,<ref>Michael Doyle - [{{Reference archive|1=http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/27/2165894/hate-crimes-against-muslims-rare.html|2=2011-04-18}} FBI data: Hate crimes against Muslims rare] - The Miami Herald, August 27, 2010</ref> with gays, lesbians and caucasians more frequently a target than the followers of Islam. Jewish victims of hate crimes also outnumber Muslim victims by a ratio of almost 9 to 1, and anti-Muslim incidents only account for a tiny 1.3% of all hate crimes. Even anti-Christian (Catholic/Protestant) incidents outnumber those perpetrated against Muslims in America. Some of the cases listed in this article also put into doubt the truth behind all 105 reported incidents.


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==See Also==
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