Hate Crime Statistics 2008--Anti_jewish HAte Crimes Outnumber Anti-Muslim by 10:1

Table 1 - Hate Crime Statistics 2008: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"
In the attached table you will see that in 2008, the latest full year for which FBI statistics are available, Anti-Jewish hate crimes in the US outnumbered anti-Islamic hate crimes 1,013 to 105! Even if these numbers are a bit off, they are telling.
The point I am trying to make is not "booh hooh, protect me from the anti-Semites", but that we see an inordinate amount of hand wringing and hysteria by our politicians and media over the dangerous anti-Islamic attitude in this country, that the numbers haven't -- and undoubtedly won't -- bear out. If anything, Obama's fawning and uncritical attitude towards all things Muslim may be one of the leading causes of whatever new anti-Muslim behavior DOES develop in the US. Face it, my liberal friends -- Obama is a highly polarizing figure, and is deeply unpopular and offensive to a broad swath of Americans. In that sense, when he opens his mouth to moralize to Americans he often causes more harm than good. He should never have opened his mouth about the Ground Zero mosque, and, as a self-anointed bridge to the Muslim world, perhaps should spend more of his time doing what real friends do -- talk to the Muslims about the impression that THEIR very real anti-Christian and anti-Semitic behavior give off in the Western world. Why are our soldiers allowed to defend the Saudis, but cannot wear crosses BENEATH their clothing (forget about visible)? Why is the Arab world so dangerous for its Christians who have lived there before there were Muslims (not to mention the dangerously inhospitable environment that helped persuade millenia-old Jewish communities to abandon these lands)?
We seek mutual respect from the Muslim world, not capitulation, President Obama.

'Offlining’ campaign backs Yom Kippur ‘no-device’ day

'Offlining’ campaign backs Yom Kippur ‘no-device’ day: "“I happen to think turning our phones and other devices off on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur would be a wonderful way to demonstrate to ourselves and others that we are serious about making people, not electronic tools, our priority,” said Rabbi Maurice Salth of Central Synagogue in New York, who plans on speaking about the role of technology in his 5771 High Holy Days sermon.

“I am hoping this New Year will be a time for those of us with a penchant for electronic and other personal technology to take the time to prioritize what is most important to us so that we can say hineni, here I am, to those most important to us,” he said.

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