Hate Crime AnalysisHate Crime AnalysisSpecific groups of people have taken acts of violence upon themselves on grounds, including gender, race, and religion. People will follow their beliefs rather than a set of ethics even when these actions may not be right or ethical. Hate crimes come into play during these situations. Hate crimes have been increasing against religious groups in recent years.
Environments that have diverse characteristics are prevalent in hate crimes. Parties struggle for a positive influence that eventually leads to hatred in environments with diverse characteristics. Physical attacks and destruction to properties are two forms of this type of crime. Psychological trauma that leads isolation and physical losses to life is a range of effects that hate crime victims’ experience.
Muslims and Arabs are two of the groups and the war on terrorism is the blame for hate crimes. Americans picture in their minds that American Muslims and Arabs may be terrorists and could be planning another horrific act against this country. A number of people take it upon themselves to ensure that others do not commit acts of violence so that Americans do not have to witness such an event again. Law enforcement agencies have been ordering officers to focus on suspicious individuals who could perform acts of terrorism but deciding how a person is a terrorist is another question. Law enforcement cannot single out an entire race on the basis of religious beliefs and that people with the same beliefs chose a path of violence.
Predators that choose their hate crimes look for certain factors. Race, clothing, head gear, a set of actions and how people speak to others are some of the factors. Murder and attacks on religious mosques are some examples of hate crimes. A hate group label is the result of an assertion of control through intimidation and violence. Hate crime predators take their anger out on individuals that they link terror and tragic events in history because they do not think how they affect the lives of these people. Hate crimes tears away the very foundation of this country and destroys communities.
Hate crimes begin in a matter of days in the United States after these events take place. Hasson Awadh did own a convenient store in Indiana. A man began shooting at his store with an assault rifle as Hasson was opening up his store for the big day less than a week after September 11, 2001. “The 43-year-old native of Yemen dived for cover behind his cash register, as a fusillade of bullets pierced the one-inch thick supposedly bulletproof glass he stood behind” (Clemetson, Naughton, 2001, p. 1) . Hasson became a target for a hate crime because he was Arab. People in similar situations were not as lucky to survive as Hasson. Abdo Ali Ahmed was also part of a hate crime later that month as he was also an owner of a convenient store in California. Abdo was standing behind his store counter when
Hasson attempted to open up the business that he had been purchasing to the public in Florida. Hasson grabbed the counter as the counterman opened a fire in his store in what would become a hate crime․(Shoemaker, M. P., 2007, p. 3). Hasson was arrested and placed under federal law for terrorism-related crimes. In the summer of 2003, he was extradited to Canada for criminal action in Canada but was ultimately convicted and found not guilty on charges of conspiring to commit terrorism. He was moved for deportation to Saudi Arabia where he remained. Hasson also served five years of a 10-year sentence after pleading guilty to multiple counts of inciting violent disorder.․ In April 2004, Hasson moved to the United States, being in the process of being deported to Saudi Arabia to return home. Prior to that time, his U.S. deportation order was denied due to his involvement in a “militant group” inside Yemen, where he worked as a security contractor with a security company. According to the Department of Justice, a group called the Brotherhood of Islam was operating outside the country and Hasson was ordered deported to Saudi Arabia.
The U.S. Consulate in Riyadh charged Hasson with two counts of conspiring with non-citizens to commit terrorism, along with five counts of conspiring to commit anti-government activities. Hasson, who had recently been taken to Saudi Arabia by the United States-based Saudi-backed Yemeni National Transitional Forces in coordination with the U.S. State Department’s Domestic Terrorist Counterterrorism Center, had been a frequent subject of intense concern from U.S. officials and local officials. Hasson had attempted to establish a U.S. consulate in Yemen using money made in his bank account in the middle of the Gulf states. This was only the latest in a series of crimes by Hasson that had received the spotlight in recent years. Saudi Arabia is a state in Yemen which has been largely ruled by Houthi rebels since the fall of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh in early 2000. In 2009, an Islamist group launched an attack against U.S. embassies throughout the region, killing at least 23 U.S. personnel and civilians, and also abducted at least one Canadian Ambassador, among other US citizens, from his home. A 2009 report from The New York Times revealed that U.S.-based intelligence agencies had determined that the Saudi branch of the Islamic State was “in possession of intelligence on a number of Sunni insurgents in the Arabian Peninsula (where the Muslim Brotherhood also operates).” The New America Foundation, an anti-American group funded in part by the billionaire financier William Ackman and former CIA officer George Papadopoulos, reported that United States citizens who traveled to Saudi Arabia to support the insurgency from there were suspected of financing the Yemeni extremist group using funds made at the U.S. consulate in Saudi Arabia. In 2007, the CIA released U.S.-based investigators at the CIA in Pakistan who had found what they later say