The FBI released its hate crimes statistics for 2008. Complete FBI stats are here.
Incidents based on religion increased 9% in 2008
There were 1,606 hate crime offenses motivated by religious bias in 2008. A breakdown of these offenses shows:
* 65.7 percent were anti-Jewish.
* 13.2 percent were anti-other religion.
* 7.7 percent were anti-Islamic.
* 4.7 percent were anti-Catholic.
* 4.2 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
* 3.7 percent were anti-Protestant.
* 0.9 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc. (Based on Table 1.)
