Muslims have faced more hate this year
Muslims have been the victims of most hate crimes so far in 2019 in Montreal, in contrast to last year when it was Jews.
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Chris 22:05 on 2019-06-21 Permalink
Inaccurate/incorrect. The article says Muslims are the majority (58%) of *religion-based* hate crimes, as opposed to ethnic-based. Counting both types, they’re at 32%, a minority.
Considering there are about 3x more Muslims than Jews in Canada (not sure about Montreal), this change seems to be towards demographic proportionality.
Kate 22:16 on 2019-06-21 Permalink
The most recent numbers I could find, on the Wikipedia’s Demographics of Montreal entry, from the 2011 census, were 5.6% Jewish, 9.6% Muslim. I tried to find religion numbers from the more recent census but have had no luck. The summary of the 2016 census for Montreal on the StatsCan site has a lot of data but nothing about religion, nor does this page on the city site.
qatzelok 23:09 on 2019-06-21 Permalink
“Reported” hate crimes. Important qualifier.
Kate 19:16 on 2019-06-22 Permalink
Chris, do you have a link to the actual report? CTV is also saying Muslims have taken the worst of it this year: “In the first four months of the year, the SPVM said 61 crimes were motivated or suspected to be motivated by hate. Of those, 15 were directed towards Muslims and seven towards Jews. Another 35 non-criminal incidents occurred, with more than a third of those aimed at Muslims.” The math’s a little fuzzy.
JaneyB 22:21 on 2019-06-23 Permalink
I dread the effect of the new law on these numbers.