9-11 and Anti-Muslim Bias  Before we get flooded with navel
gazing posts blaming America for our evil tendency to treat
Muslims like crap after the attacks on 9-11, let’s explore some
facts. All statistics are available at the FBI Uniform Crime
Reports website.  Hate crimes in general are quite rare in the
US. There are over 300 million people in the US, and in the last
14 the total number of hate crimes has never exceeded 10,000. Of
those, hate crimes motivated by the religion of the victim have
never exceeded 20% of the total for the year.  Here’s a graph of
total hate crimes vs. religiously motivated hate crimes.
Religiously motivated hate crimes compared to total hate crimes
You can see that as hate crimes go, religiously motivated hate
crimes are not a large percentage of the total.  This is
meaningless if all the religious hate crimes in the US are
against Muslims, so let’s look at two main religious groups who
suffer hate crimes.  There was that one spike in reported anti-
Muslim hate crimes in 2001,