Florida man gets 15 years for breaking stuff and leaving bacon behind

Florida Islamophobe Michael Wolfe was sentenced to 15 years in prison for breaking windows and insulting an ideology with bacon. It's still a mystery as to how one can actually insult an ideology, or set of ideas--I thought in order to feel insulted, feelings themselves are required.
So this guy is being sentenced 15 years for smashing lights, cameras and windows at a mosque and leaving some bacon by the front door. Sure, these are really bad things to do and disrespectful to mosque-goers, but the sentence clearly does not fit the crime.

What this idiot committed was vandalism, and while it's inexcusable and putting forbidden bacon by the door of a mosque is nasty and obnoxious, fifteen years is just wrong.

The ASSociated Press says the sentence was "a hate crime enhancement." That is, the draconian sentence is to make an example out of the guy so that nobody dare think of doing that horrible thing to a mosque.

Synagogue? Well, that's okay. They're just for Jews. Had Wolfe done this to a Synagogue, there's no way he'd receive such an unfairly long sentence.

And while Muslims play the victims most often, the number of hate crimes and victims in the United States involving Jews and Muslims clearly show Jews to be the largest group of hate crime victims in comparison to Muslims and with the remainder of the population of victims.

For example, according to FBI statistics, in 1996 there were 1,109 anti-Jewish incidents vs. 27 anti-Islamic incidents. In the former, there were 1,209 victims while in the latter, there were 33 victims. 

Those numbers increased, both in incidents and number of victims for Muslims, but still, anti-Jewish incidents were more than twice as high: 684 incidents and 862 victims for Jews, vs. 307 anti-Islamic incidents with 388 victims.

Although Muslims often portray themselves as the biggest victims of wholesale hatred, persecution and harassment on the planet, the fact is, it just isn't true.

And as Ben Shapiro has said, "Facts don't care about your feelings."


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