FBI Releases 2008 Hate Crime Statistics

FBI Releases 2008 Hate Crime Statistics
Press Release — Hate Crime Statistics Web Site
— “An analysis of the 7,780 single-bias incidents revealed that 51.3 percent were motivated by a racial bias”
— Anti-Black Racial Hate 2,876, Anti-Jewish Hate 1,013, Anti-Homosexual 1,200, Anti-Hispanic 561
— Anti-Islam Incidents – 105
— Anti-Christian Incidents – 101

Table 1

Incidents, Offenses, Victims, and Known Offenders
by Bias Motivation, 2008

Bias motivation	Incidents	Offenses	Victims¹	Known offenders²
Total	7,783	9,168	9,691	6,927
Single-Bias Incidents	7,780	9,160	9,683	6,921
Race:	3,992	4,704	4,934	3,723
Anti-White	716	812	829	811
Anti-Black	2,876	3,413	3,596	2,596
Anti-American Indian/Alaskan Native	54	59	63	61
Anti-Asian/Pacific Islander	137	162	170	140
Anti-Multiple Races, Group	209	258	276	115
Religion:	1,519	1,606	1,732	632
Anti-Jewish	1,013	1,055	1,145	353
Anti-Catholic	75	75	89	35
Anti-Protestant	56	60	62	34
Anti-Islamic	105	123	130	85
Anti-Other Religion	191	212	222	90
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group	65	67	70	33
Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.	14	14	14	2
Sexual Orientation:	1,297	1,617	1,706	1,460
Anti-Male Homosexual	776	948	981	921
Anti-Female Homosexual	154	194	198	156
Anti-Homosexual	307	415	466	336
Anti-Heterosexual	33	33	34	25
Anti-Bisexual	27	27	27	22
Ethnicity/National Origin:	894	1,148	1,226	1,034
Anti-Hispanic	561	735	792	711
Anti-Other Ethnicity/National Origin	333	413	434	323
Disability:	78	85	85	72
Anti-Physical	22	28	28	26
Anti-Mental	56	57	57	46
Multiple-Bias Incidents³	3	8	8	6

¹ The term victim may refer to a person, business, institution, or society as a whole.
² The term known offender does not imply that the identity of the suspect is known, but only that an attribute of the suspect has been identified, which distinguishes him/her from an unknown offender.
³ In a multiple-bias incident, two conditions must be met: (a) more than one offense type must occur in the incident and (b) at least two offense types must be motivated by different biases.

Missouri: KKK Shows at Kennett March for Heather Ellis

Missouri: KKK Shows at Kennett March for Heather Ellis
— FOX13 reports: “The 1.5 mile march began at the Wal-Mart parking lot where Heather Ellis is accused of assaulting officers after a verbal altercation with a store cashier when Ellis cut line in January 2007. The march will end in front of the courthouse.”
— “According to FOX13’s Les Smith, the march has proceeded peacefully. Approximately 20 supposed members of the KKK are among those lining the streets, holding signs with KKK slogans and swastikas. One arrest of an alleged skinhead was made prior to the march.”

Germany: Former ‘Nazi’ faces murder charges

Germany: Former ‘Nazi’ faces murder charges
AKI reports:
— “German prosecutors have charged an alleged former member of the Nazi SS with the killing of 58 Jewish labourers. The 90-year-old man is suspected of killing his victims near the village of Deutsch Schutzen in eastern Austria in 1945, a statement from a German state court said.”
— “The court has identified the suspect only as a ‘retiree from Duisburg’ ”
— ” ‘On 29 March 1945, the accused and his accomplices brought at least 57 Jewish forced labourers in several groups to a nearby forest area, where they had to give up their valuables and kneel by a grave,’ the statement said.”
— ” ‘The accused and other SS members then cruelly shot the Jewish forced labourers from behind.’ ”
— “While the accused has not been officially identified, German media reports have named him as Adolf Storms, a former member of the 5th SS Panzer Division, known as Wiking.”

— Undergrad research nabs SS suspect

Germany: Those behind neo-Nazi radio station face judges

Germany: Those behind neo-Nazi radio station face judges
— Deutsche Welle: “On the first day of their trial, the accused, ranging from 20 to 36 years old, were charged with incitement to hatred and running a criminal organization. A police raid on their premises in March seized extensive material connected to German neo-Nazi organizations. According to prosecutors, the radio station, named European Brotherhood Radio, was founded in 2006 and had broadcast music that included hate slogans against minorities and denied the Holocaust. It is also thought to have accessed material on the Internet that described how to build a bomb.”

Neo-Nazi Group Targets School Newspapers to Recruit White Youth

— “(ChattahBox)–A new neo-Nazi white supremacist group, named Victory Forever has mysteriously appeared on the Internet, placing at least one ad in a high school newspaper that misleadingly advertises free music downloads. But when connecting to the site, the only available music downloads are of white power hate music, with plenty of disturbing neo-Nazi ideology, virulent anti-Semitism, homophobia and ‘white resistance’ items for sale, including a CD of Aryan Pride music, called ‘Fetch the Rope,’ swastika stickers, free e-book downloads of the infamous Turner Diaries and other neo-nazi tomes and white resistance flyers.”
— “The Victory Forever site also offers young recruits plenty of racist malevolence with the stated purpose, ‘to disseminate White resistance music as widely as possible around the World.’ ”

How the Nazis took Christ out of Christmas

How the Nazis took Christ out of Christmas
— “Christmas trees were adorned with swastikas and toy grenades and carols had religious lyrics changed to Nazi propaganda”

Cologne: Christmas in political propaganda
— Translated into English
— in Original German

— The study and documentation of Rita and Judith Breuer’s extensive collection (Adobe Acrobat PDF file download)

California: Jewish Worship Center Vandalized with Swastikas, Kristallnacht Hate Messages

— at Temple Beth Shalom in Carmichael

— FOX 40 News report:
— Local Jewish Temple Vandalism Coincides With Anniversary Of Nazi Event
— “Several swastika symbols were painted on the walls of the Beth Shalom Temple”
— “Police are searching for a suspicious person responsible for vandalism at the Beth Shalom temple in Carmichael”
— “According to a congregation leader with Beth Shalom Temple, the phrase “Kristallnacht Still Lives” was one of many spray painted on the wall of the temple.”

— “Carmichael’s Beth Shalom Temple Vandalized with Swastika, Graffiti”

— Associated Video

Neo-Nazis to March Saturday in Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix, Arizona: “Neo-Nazi group to protest immigration in Phoenix march”
— ABC 15 reports:
— “On Saturday afternoon, Neo-nazi members will take a stand in Arizona.”
— “The members, with the National Socialist Movement (NSM), will be marching to the Arizona State Capitol to protest.”
— ” ‘It’s an American first rally,’ said NSM member Steven Boswell. ‘It’s a demand for our politicians to put Americans first.’ ”
— “Organizers say the protest will focus on immigration.”
— ” ‘We’ve got completely wide open borders and politicians who will bend over backwards for Mexicans or anyone else who is not American,’ Boswell said.”
— “But civil rights leaders say the group is using immigration as a front.”
— ” ‘(They are) injecting their vile agenda into what is a legitimate mainstream issue,’ said Bill Straus with the Arizona chapter of the Anti-Defamation League.”
— “Straus says it’s common for hate groups to take political issues and twist them to gain support.”
— ” ‘They are about their philosophy: That caucasians are superior to other people and this country would be better without people of any color — period,’ Straus said.”
— “The NSM calls itself America’s ‘largest white civil rights organization.’ ”
— “It is also holding similar protests this weekend across the country.”

National Socialist Movement (NSM) Nazis -- (ABC 15 Arizona)

Germany: Berlin bans fast-growing neo-Nazi group – ‘Frontbann 24’

Germany: Berlin bans fast-growing neo-Nazi group
— AFP reports:
— “Berlin authorities outlawed a rapidly-expanding neo-Nazi group on Thursday, with police staging dawn raids at the homes of its leading members, according to the city’s interior minister Ehrhart Koerting.”
— “The group, named ‘Frontbann 24’ after a forerunner of Hitler’s ‘storm troops,’ is ‘the fastest-growing neo-Nazi organisation in Berlin,’ according to Koerting.”

— The Local report: “Berlin bans neo-Nazi group ‘Frontbann 1924′”
— Another media report

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