Hate Crime Analysis Kim Hull CJA/540 Criminological Theory October 13, 2011 Facilitator David Mailloux
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Fathers, America has prided itself on the protection of free speech. However, with this protection has come the toleration of hate speech which, overtime, has evolved into hate groups. As described by novelist Salman Rushdie, “The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.” Hate groups, as defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), is “an organization that – based on its official statements…
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Newspaper in the UK, contains any evidence of anti-Islamic bias. Following the September 11th acts in the United States, hate crimes against Muslims and people of Asian heritage; who were often assumed to be Muslims by their assailants, increased dramatically in the United States, rising by 1600% according to the FBI. However due at least in part to the global extensive coverage, hate crimes were reported in Africa and Europe. The European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) claimed that…
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