FBI Tallies Incidents of Religious Bias

The FBI has released its 2006 hate crime statistics and tells us that religious bias was a factor in nearly 1,600 offenses reported by law enforcement officials. Here’s what they found: – 64.3 percent were anti-Jewish. – 12.0 percent were anti-Islamic. – 8.8 percent were anti-other religion. – 5.5 percent were anti-multiple religions (groups of […]

The FBI has released its 2006 hate crime statistics and tells us that religious bias was a factor in nearly 1,600 offenses reported by law enforcement officials. Here’s what they found:

– 64.3 percent were anti-Jewish.

– 12.0 percent were anti-Islamic.


– 8.8 percent were anti-other religion.

– 5.5 percent were anti-multiple religions (groups of individuals of varying religions).

– 5.1 percent were anti-Catholic.

– 3.9 percent were anti-Protestant.

– 0.5 percent were anti-atheism/agnosticism.

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