The flaw of the "Hate Crimes" definition

FBI Agent: Muslim Student's Alleged Assault May or May Not Be a Hate Crime
from Agape Press
By Jim Brown

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the alleged attack on a Muslim student at a large Baptist university in Texas as a possible hate crime.

According to the female Muslim student, she was walking to her dorm on the Baylor University campus on April 1 when a white male assaulted her and threatened to kill her. She claims the man grabbed her headscarf, threw her to the ground and kicked her, meanwhile uttering anti-Muslim slurs.

FBI Special Agent Rene Salinas of San Antonio is leading the investigation into the matter and says the suggestion has been made {c~b~n would agree} "that the alleged attack on this particular student was caused or was the direct result of a hate crime." As a result of this allegation, he explains, "the FBI has initiated a preliminary investigation under a civil rights violation -- it would be a civil rights/hate crime -- to make a determination if the allegation is true."

Salinas notes that two factors typically prompt a hate crimes investigation. The crime "has to be racially motivated or religiously motivated," he says, as it would appear to be in this case, if the allegations are true.

However, the federal agent points out, not all crimes involving persons of a particular race or religion or their property are necessarily hate crimes.

For instance, he asserts, "The three college students that were burning the Baptist churches {!! IF not religiously motivated, then WHAT precisely was it? } well, it's not just the fact that they were Baptist churches [or that] they were African American or black Baptist churches."

For the authorities to designate the church burnings a hate crime, evidence would have to suggest that the perpetrators were specifically motivated.{Gee, you think maybe they just hate churches? More specifically, Baptist churches? NOT a HATE CRIME????? This is the flaw in the government's definition of a "hate" crime. Or perhaps it is just their ANTI-Christian bias blatantly showing for once.....}

In 1992 Congress defined a hate crime as any crime in which "the defendant's conduct was motivated by hatred, bias, or prejudice, based on the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability of another individual or group of individuals."

According to the FBI spokesman, a crime such as the burning of black churches or Baptist churches might not be prosecuted under hate crime legislation if nothing in the crime indicates the victim was specifically targeted for one of the specified reasons. {Watch them sell it to us as the "boys will be boys" syndrome.}

"If an individual, for example, goes to a black Baptist church and starts putting up swastikas and all sorts of hate symbols and so forth on it, then the FBI gets involved in that situation," Special Agent Salinas explains.

{Symbols are BAD; Fire is OK.........

Seems to me they are trying TOO HARD to explain WHY they are not treating the burning of many Baptist churches as a hate crime as opposed to the Muslim woman's attack.

Frankly, I don't see a difference and this angers me when my own country can treat the destruction of places of worship as a run-of-the-mill crime; when in fact, it is EVERY bit as serious as what happened to this Muslim woman.

HATE is HATE.

It should NOT be tolerated by anyone or any government!}

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