In the month of August:
- In California,two women dumped pig parts outside a home while Muslims prayed inside
- In Illinois, a man fired an air rifle outside a mosque and a 7-up bottle with acid and other materials were thrown at an Islamic school. Both incidents took place while evening prayers were going on.
Meanwhile on the other side:
- In England, alcohol and eggs were thrown at an Islamic Centre and a Muslim taxi driver’s cab was set on fire while he was praying at a local mosque CORRECTION: There is a history of arson attacks in this area which includes cars being set on fire. This driver also noted that he heard of other cabs in the area being targeted. This incident is most likely another crime in a long line of similar incidents rather than a religiously motivated attack.
- In France, 2 pig heads were hung outside a mosque in France
Go on tell me more about those ‘extremist’ Muslims and all the ways in which they’re out to destroy the West.
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So yesterday I posted a video of a Lakota elder who talked about his experience being the victim of a hate crime. PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION!
http://www.change.org/petitions/justice-for-hate-crime-against-lakota-sioux-elder-vernon-traversie?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=friends_wall
and here’s the video again
Hours after anti-violence protest, more gay men attacked in NYC
advocate.comTW: hate crimes, anti-gay violence
Last night, on the same day New Yorkers took to the streets to protest a recent slew of violence against LGBT people, three more gay men were reportedly attacked.
One was Dan Contarino, a former nightclub promoter who was brutally beaten in the East Village and had to undergo surgery as a result. Then a gay couple, ages 41 and 42, were attacked in SoHo around 5am. All the victims said they were berated with anti-gay slurs before and during the attacks.
Seven gay bashings in New York City in 30 days, including one murder. Try and tell me hate crimes aren’t real.
“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
—Thich Nhat HanhNevada slated to pass trans-inclusive hate crimes bill
advocate.comNevada Gov. Brian Sandoval is expected to sign into law a bill that would add gender identity and expression as protected classes under the state’s hate crimes law.
The state assembly passed the legislation 30-11 on Tuesday, and the senate passed it nearly unanimously last month.
“This does not afford victims special rights,” openly gay Assemblyman Andrew Martin said Tuesday according to the Associated Press. ”This is a statement of what our society is, and that we will not tolerate the systematic targeting of individuals who are historically disadvantaged groups.”
People who commit hate crimes would be subject to penalties for the actual crime committed, in addition to motivation based on their bias, according to the article.
We need this law. Come on, Nevada.
“How many Troy Davis’s, how many Treyvon Martin’s, how many Shaima Alawadi's will it take for you to understand that racism, discrimination, and stereotyping, and hate crimes, and violence exist in this country—this country where people think that there is so much justice here…where there’s more crimes being committed by people in suits than people in hoodies and hijabs. Tell me, when will you understand?”
—Ainee Fatima (faineemae)
video link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TDFjE3Dx5ds
The weird thing about watching people debate over racial profiling and police brutality on tumblr is realizing that white people are more likely to get up in arms about being "unfairly labelled as racist" than they are about a POC being murdered because cops thought being black and being a criminal were the same thing.
See also: “Getting profiled as a terrorist makes sense if you’re Middle-Eastern looking, because that’s statistically more likely!”
and, “Well Mexicans are all illegals and stealing our jobs, anyways”
and, “He looked like a thug, duhhh.”
Peice of Bindi history in the US or why bindi is more than just swag...
DOT BUSTERS IN NEW JERSEYThe Indian immigrant community is about 15,000 strong in Jersey City, part of a much larger Indian community in northern New Jersey generally. But in 1987, a thirty-year-old Indian immigrant bank manager, Navroze Mody, was beaten to death by a gang chanting “Hindu, Hindu!” A group which called itself the “Dot Busters,” which included local teenagers, had been targeting the hard-working community of Indian immigrants with low-level harassment for months. The “dot” referred to the bindi Hindu women wear on their foreheads.
In July of 1987, a month before Mody’s death, a local newspaper called attention to the rising number of harassment incidents. In response, it received a letter, signed “Jersey City Dot Busters:”
“I’m writing about your article during July about the abuse of Indian People. Well I’m here to state the other side. I hate them, if you had to live near them you would also. We are an organization called dot busters. We have been around for 2 years. We will go to any extreme to get Indians to move out of Jersey City. If I’m walking down the street and I see a Hindu and the setting is right, I will hit him or her. We plan some of our most extreme attacks such as breaking windows, breaking car windows, and crashing family parties. We use the phone books and look up the name Patel. Have you seen how many of them there are? Do you even live in Jersey City? Do you walk down Central avenue and experience what its like to be near them: we have and we just don’t want it anymore. You said that they will have to start protecting themselves because the police cannot always be there. They will never do anything. They are a week race Physically and mentally. We are going to continue our way. We will never be stopped.”
In Jersey City, a few weeks after Mody’s death, a young resident in medicine, Dr. Sharan, was assaulted by three young men with baseball bats as he walked home late one night. One of the young people yelled, “There’s a dothead! Let’s get him!” as they set out with their bats. Sharan was beaten severely and left unconscious with a fractured skull. He was in a coma for a week, in the hospital for three weeks, and suffered permanent neurological damage.
These incidents were a severe blow to the Indian immigrant community and jarred it into taking political action seriously. While the violence seemed to be aimed at the Hindu community, where the wearing of the bindi is most common, it is clear that the animosity felt by the Dot Busters was primarily racial, aimed indiscriminately at South Asian immigrants. A group called Indian Youth Against Racism (IYAR) based at Columbia University documented instances of violence against Indians in New Jersey and helped implement a series of educational programs on South Asian cultures for students and faculty at a Jersey City high school. The group also helped get a bill passed in the New Jersey legislature that raised the mandatory penalties for “bias crimes.”
The perpetrators have been brought to trial for these assaults. The tough new anti-bias crime law was passed by the New Jersey legislature in 1990. But the attacks did not cease. 1991 saw 58 cases of hate crimes against Indians in New Jersey. In 1992, an Indian physician was hit on the head and sprayed with mace, and an Indian businessman was struck on the head with a bat.
- criminal: btw i'm just gonna beat this person cuz of their skin colour
- police: no evidence this was a hate crime.
- criminal: btw i'm just gonna beat this person cuz of their sexuality
- police: no evidence this was a hate crime.
- criminal: btw i'm just gonna beat this person cuz of their gender
- police: no evidence this was a hate crime.
- criminal: btw i'm doin a hate crime. just hate criming over hur. again i repeat hATE CRIME.
- police: we *suspect* this is a hate crime.