Muslim backlash only in our minds says The Denver ComPost

[XOKCowboy]

Once again Vince Carroll chides us dumb Dems and sets us straight. There is no Muslim Backlash. What a tool.

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_13758891

Shouldn't this country's experience after 9/11 reassure those who fear a backlash against Muslims? While hate crimes targeting Muslims have indeed been more plentiful this decade than in the 1990s, even in 2001 they were less than half as numerous as reported incidents against Jews, according to the FBI.

The most recent data, from 2007, is typical of most years: Of 1,477 offenses motivated by religious bias, only 9 percent were directed at Muslims. By comparison, even Catholics and Protestants were the targets of 8.4 percent of the offenses. In a nation of 300 million citizens, such paltry totals are hardly cause for panic.

Meanwhile, 68.4 percent of the incidents in 2007 were anti-Jewish — yet no one seriously imagines this nation has suddenly become inhospitable to Jews.

Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan "complained bitterly to people at his mosque about the oppression of Muslims in the Army," reports The New York Times. But what is the definition of "oppression" to an Islamist creep like Hasan — that he had to fraternize on an equal basis with non-Muslims?

[mmonk]

1. I've heard that before.

Horse hockey.