FBI To Start Tracking Hate Crimes Against Sikhs, Hindus and Arabs
Article in Huffington Post, posted on 6/5/2013
UPDATE 9:58 PM - FBI spokesman Stephen Fischer said the bureau also has decided to begin tracking hate crimes against additional religious groups.
"The hate crime tracking will include "all self-identified religions in the United States as listed in the Pew Research Center’s Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (2008) and the Statistical Abstract (2012) approved by the U.S. Census Bureau," Fischer wrote in an email. "The recommended list includes Catholic, Protestant, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness, Orthodox, Other Christian, Jewish, Islamic (Muslim), Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, Other Religions, Multiple Religions-Group, and Atheism/Agnosticism."
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