Supposing we acquiesce in the 'hate crimes' terminology, here are some interesting statistics from the FBI for 2013:
Religious bias
Of the 1,223 victims of anti-religious hate crimes:
- 60.3 percent were victims of crimes motivated by their offenders’ anti-Jewish bias.
- 13.7 percent were victims of anti-Islamic (Muslim) bias.
- 6.1 percent were victims of anti-Catholic bias.
- 4.3 percent were victims of bias against groups of individuals of varying religions (anti-multiple religions, group).
- 3.8 percent were victims of anti-Protestant bias.
- 0.6 percent were victims of anti-Atheist/Agnostic bias.
- 11.2 percent were victims of bias against other religions (anti-other religion). (Based on Table 1.)
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