There's nothing like some good old fashion Republican fear mongering to get Americans to focus on the wrong things.
Scared of being attacked? Look no further than your American Christian Neighbors!
I wasn't going to devote an entire piece to this but the Republicans have forced me to do the one thing they can't stand more than anything else. Present them with cold hard facts to go against their "superior sense" of "how they feel". Because as we all know, the GOP operates off of "feelings" above all.
It's their "feelings" above the law, "feelings" above what's reasonable and let's not forget their favorite, their "feelings" above "the facts".
So, let's look at some of the facts surrounding my claim that "If you're scared of being attacked. Look no further than your AMERICAN CHRISTIAN neighbor."
Muslims make up less than 4% of people here.
Christians on the other hand equal roughly 80%
There are about 310 MILLION people here.
In 2010 there were over 14,600 murders and 84,000 rapes. (Of which I'm not sure how many Republican Rep. Todd Akin would consider to be legitimate).
There were 1.2 MILLION violent crimes and there were 8.2 MILLION burglaries and thefts.
And 2010 was overall the safest year in America almost forty years!
Though I'd love to take the credit for being this incredible researcher. The fact of the matter is, a 6th grader could go online and look these stats up by inputting "American crime rate" in a google search. From Wikipedia to the FBI crime stats (UCR), they're all there for the picking.
Let's dig a little deeper here. Compared with other countries, the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
As of 2006, a record 7 million people were behind bars, on probation or on parole of which 2.2 million were incarcerated. The People Republic of China ranks second with 1.5 million. The United States has 5% of the worlds population and 25% of the world's incarcerated population.
When we examine everything from child abuse, physical neglect and everything in between in terms of how we treat each other as Americans who were born and raised here that are predominantly of Christian upbringing, the numbers are appalling. Particularly if you're just judging based on the statistics. Which many American like to use as a best indicator for things. That is of course, unless you want to use the ever present "selective application of principal" lifeline that allows you to be a hypocrite.
But if you're fair, reasonable and want to abide by the fats and the truth, then let's stop the "all of the Muslims are going to get me" phobias. And if you insist on having one, it should start with us fearing each other BEFORE looking elsewhere. Which we won't do because "we know better". Because when you know better, you should do better. So don't do it to others.
More importantly, as a Christian, I KNOW BETTER. When we look back over our lives at our "friends", people who we grew up with, or strangers in our neighborhoods and cities who either; owe us money that we're obviously never getting back, stabbed us in the back, cut us off while driving & gave us the bird, skipped us on line, hit our car while parked in the lot and then drove off without leaving a note or calling police, cheated on us etc.. I can assure you, it wasn't someone from "the evil Muslim empire". In your day to day travels, it was a fellow Christian. Not that all Christians are criminals or even most but it's the demographics and dynamics of our great country, the greatest in the world that shape our daily dealings. Not that of the less than 4%. To make people fearful of that is unreasonable and ridiculous based on "a feeling" and not "a fact".
There's good and bad everywhere, but Muslims are among the least to have a corner on the crime market.
Not because I say so, but because their behavior does.
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