Soccer Dad

Have you forgotten?

You took all the footage off my T.V. Said it's too disturbin for you and me It'll just breed anger is what the experts say If it was up to me I'd show it everyday

Have you forgotten? by Darryl Worley

On Friday, I caught the end of a CBS news report that quoted an official of CAIR. Presumably (and tiresomely predictably) the segment was about the discrimination Muslims in the United States have suffered since 9/11. I couldn't find the article but I found this.

Eight years after the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, Americans believe that Muslims face more discrimination than any other religious group in the US.

Fifty-eight percent say Muslims face "a lot" of discrimination, according to an annual survey of religious attitudes by the Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life and the Pew Center for People and the Press, released Wednesday.

Perceptions, by themselves, are not news, so why this is offered as such I have no idea. (If perceptions spurred an action, that would be different.) What's worse, is that this perception is wrong. Check out the FBI's latest Hate Crimes Report. In 2007 - the last year for which the data is available - there were 115 reported anti-Islamic incidents. True that's roughly the same as the number of reported anti-Christian attacks. But it pales in comparison to the 969 antisemitic incidents. Those numbers have been very consistent over the years. There was a brief spike in anti-Muslim incidents after 9/11, but those numbers decreased and have stayed low since then.

But seriously isn't there a much bigger story about 9/11 rather than the overhyped discrimination against Muslims story? How about how subsequent terror attacks have been prevented?

Have they forgotten?

Sadly, the answer seems to be "yes."