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The intolerance of Jonah Goldberg : Comments

By Nicholas Wilbur, published 9/9/2010

In the US there's been a spike in anti-Muslim hate crimes after a news agency incited the masses over plans to build a mosque in New York.

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Direct quote from Goldberg's article when explaining the 28 (in 2000) to 481 (in 2001) rise in Anti-Muslim hate crimes:

"Regardless, 2001 was the zenith or, looked at through the prism of our national shame, the nadir of the much-discussed anti-Muslim backlash in the United States. The following year, the number of anti-Islamic hate-crime incidents (overwhelmingly, nonviolent vandalism and nasty words) dropped to 155. In 2003, there were 149 such incidents."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is he implying that hate crimes are more or less ok as long as they are nonviolent?

Is our world populated with extremists on all sides (religious, ideological, separatist etc) or are they just the ones with the loudest voices?

http://currentglobalperceptions.blogspot.com/
Posted by jorge, Thursday, 9 September 2010 12:17:27 PM
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Of course the simplistic and false rantings of Goldberg are much favored and promoted over at Quadrant and all of the right-thinking culture-war-warriors that link into the "world"-view promoted by Quadrant. Including of course Ben Terpstra
Posted by Ho Hum, Thursday, 9 September 2010 2:16:08 PM
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