Wednesday, August 03, 2005
600 PERCENT!
Sky goes statistically and spellingly bananas:
600 percent! Good God!
Uh, wait a minute. Look at that second paragraph again:
So the norm is "40", but after the bombings they jumped to 269. No increase in such is ever appropriate. Still, we are talking about all of a brief increase of a little more than 200 actual events.
So over three days, there were 68 such events in London.
However, none were evidently suicide killings.
The Press Association, too, has lost its mind:
And so has CNN:
Much as I hate to admit it, relatively speaking the BBC got this one much better:
However, let's take a moment, step back, and briefly consider another possible "snapshot", by altering some variables and thereby creating a different -- though very much related and illuminating in its own way -- model:
The BBC also noted:
Given the July 7 bombings and the attempt again on July 21, thank goodness everyone else is rational, decent and not quite as quick to "anger".
UPDATE: 2) above had been "51" killed. I've corrected it to "52". ¶ by Robert, Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Sky goes statistically and spellingly bananas:
600 percent! Good God!
Uh, wait a minute. Look at that second paragraph again:
Alarming figures from Scotland Yard showed that there were 269 such attacks compared to just 40 in the same three-and-a-half-week period in 2004.
So the norm is "40", but after the bombings they jumped to 269. No increase in such is ever appropriate. Still, we are talking about all of a brief increase of a little more than 200 actual events.
In the three days following the London bombings, there were 68 religious hate crimes in the capital; there were none in the same period 12 months earlier.
The attacks included verbal and physical assaults and damage to property including mosques...
The attacks included verbal and physical assaults and damage to property including mosques...
So over three days, there were 68 such events in London.
However, none were evidently suicide killings.
The Press Association, too, has lost its mind:
Religious hate crimes soar by 600%
Crimes motivated by religious hatred have jumped by nearly 600% in London since the July 7 bombings...
Crimes motivated by religious hatred have jumped by nearly 600% in London since the July 7 bombings...
And so has CNN:
London religious hate crime soars
Wednesday, August 3, 2005 Posted: 0855 GMT (1655 HKT)
LONDON, England -- Crimes motivated by religious hatred have jumped by nearly 600 percent in London since the July 7 bombings, according to police records.
They include verbal and physical attacks and criminal damage to property, including mosques...
Wednesday, August 3, 2005 Posted: 0855 GMT (1655 HKT)
LONDON, England -- Crimes motivated by religious hatred have jumped by nearly 600 percent in London since the July 7 bombings, according to police records.
They include verbal and physical attacks and criminal damage to property, including mosques...
Much as I hate to admit it, relatively speaking the BBC got this one much better:
Religious hate crimes, mostly against Muslims, have risen six-fold in London since the bombings, new figures show.
There were 269 religious hate crimes in the three weeks after 7 July, compared with 40 in the same period of 2004.
Most were verbal abuse and minor assaults, but damage to mosques and property with a great "emotional impact" also occurred, police said...
There were 269 religious hate crimes in the three weeks after 7 July, compared with 40 in the same period of 2004.
Most were verbal abuse and minor assaults, but damage to mosques and property with a great "emotional impact" also occurred, police said...
However, let's take a moment, step back, and briefly consider another possible "snapshot", by altering some variables and thereby creating a different -- though very much related and illuminating in its own way -- model:
1) Presume an "event is an event". Therefore, being murdered or injured badly doesn't outweigh getting a "dirty look".And thus it could also be said that non-Muslim victims of "religious hatred" far outnumbered Muslim victims during that statistical period, commencing when the first bomb exploded the morning of July 7.
2) No less than 52 non-bombers died as a result of the suicide bombings on the morning of July 7.
3) The figures on the injured vary, but it appears that the number was "about 700". For this context, we will state the number as exactly 700.
4) All those are counted as individual "events".
5) As of April 2001, there were nearly 1.6 million Muslims in the U.K., with 38% of them living in London. That appears to mean that 608,000 Muslims reside as part of the city's overall population of "over 7 million", therefore making them about 8.5% of London's total population.
6) So, allowing for 10% of those "events" being themselves Muslims caught in the bombing "cross-fire" (given the census figures, that seems statistically generous), that means that 76 of all killed and injured (even rounding up) were statistically also Muslim.
7) Based on such, it could be said that roughly 675 non-Muslims were victims of a terrible series of "hate crimes" perpetrated by Muslims on July 7.
8) That figure is in contrast to 269 "events" directed "mostly against Muslims" in the three weeks following the attacks.
The BBC also noted:
Met Police Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur said he had never seen so much anger among young Muslims...
Given the July 7 bombings and the attempt again on July 21, thank goodness everyone else is rational, decent and not quite as quick to "anger".
UPDATE: 2) above had been "51" killed. I've corrected it to "52". ¶ by Robert, Wednesday, August 03, 2005
