BBC.com, UK edition, has an interesting front page article about religious hate crimes in London, since the bombings. It is staggering to see numbers like these:
"...in the first three days after suicide bombers killed 52 people and injured 700 more, there were 68 "faith hate" crimes in London. During the same three days in 2004 there were none."
I was just amazed by that number. Sixty-eight hate crimes in one city in three days. Now given a lot of them were simple verbal assault, but still it was obviously offensive enough to warrant a report being filed. Maybe I am blocking it out or American media blocked it out, but I don't remember those kinds of numbers coming out of New York after September 11th.
But I could be wrong.
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