Something else I’ve missed this week:

FBI Report: Majority of Anti-Faith Hate Crimes Are Anti-Jewish
theblaze.com

On Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) released its 2010 report entitled, “Hate Crime Statistics” (the full text of the annual report can be found here). Of the 6,224 single bias incidents reported, 20 percent were motivated by faith and religion — making this the second most cited motivation for hate crimes abuses.

Additionally, 47.3 percent were motivated by race, 19.3 percent by sexual orientation and 12.8 percent were based upon ethnicity/national original bias. Another 0.6 percent occurred as a result of physical or mental disability.

In sum, there were 1,409 hate crimes motivated by religious bias. Of these anti-faith crimes, 65.4 percent were against Jews (or anti-Jewish), 13.2 percent were against Muslims (or anti-Islamic), 4.3 percent were anti-Catholic, 3.8 percent were anti-multiple faiths, 3.3 percent were anti-Protestant, 0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc. and 9.5% involved other religions, as reported by Religion Clause.