we now turn our attention to religion as also a catalyst for the convention of hate crime in both the United States and Canada our
sister country the most religiously motivated
hate crime is directed against people who are Jewish in fact in Canada Jewish people are the most
common victims of all hate crimes according to the FBI hate
crime statistics in 2009 70.1% of all religiously motivated hate crimes in
the United States where anti-semitic in nature down from
86% in 1996 so I guess looking at the statistics you can say well okay is getting a little better but it's still pretty bad a 2004 report
by the US Department of State said the increasing frequency and severity
of anti solitic incidences started 21st century particularly in
Europe has compelled the international community to focus on anti-semitism with renewed bigger
according to this report the European Union monitoring center for racism and
xenophobia identified France Germany the United
Kingdom Belgium and the Netherlands as countries with the most significant increases in simetic incidents as a result
governments in France Germany and Belgium are
providing enhance protections to members of the Jewish community and Jewish properties it has been
suggested that this type of hate crime is frequently based on known to
believe about acceptable violence toward a
particular group an example of this behavior on the night April 5, 2004
the library of United now matura a jewish elementary school in
Montreal Canada erupted in flames after Kerosene bomb crashed through
the window although no one was injured in the
nighttime attack it cost five hundred thousand dollars in damage and destroyed 10,000 books a
note discovered on the scene indicated the attack was in retaliation
for Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Amid Yassin the note indicated Jews should be punished
for israeli actions and promised to strike again if
israeli policy did not change it read here is the consequences of your crimes in Europe occupations here is the repostae of your
assassination here is where terrorist ariel shiron has
led you the term rep or stae is important here in terms of what t implies in real definition now there's a document
posted also along with his week's material that you should take a look at but just by brief explanation the term is related to the sport other fencing in reality and Inc French for were retoric which is in offensive action with the intent of
hitting one's opponent made by the fencer was just parried an
attack so you have to picture that or go online
and see if you can find a fencing match and look at
the activity that's going on there and so when someone is attacking and the intent then
is to hit one's opponent with the point of the
fencing sword I think it is but anyway though when you intend to strike and the venture has just parried an
attack meaning blocked an attack you actually are then able to hit
anyway okay, that's called a riposte now in everyday language meaning in the way that is used here in
this particular note a reposte is synonymous with the
retoric and describes the quick a really big reply with argument or it is meant to be and in some and so the
deeper meaning here is that when it says here's the consequences of your crimes and your occupation here is the ripost of your assassinations here is where
terrorists Ariel Shiron has led you meaning that this person who was the prime minister I
believe of Israel for certain time period he is calling them an assassin and of course the object of the assassination is the
Palestinian people at large and so this is his revenge for what was a what he considers a crime
of occupation which historically has been problematic
for quite some time but nevertheless you have been read up on that history to
fully understand it this message then has significance to what might be a revenge at the following
year a 19 year old Sleiman Obeid was sentenced to 40
months in jail that's probably the wrong pronunciation but that's the best I can do this attack
against the Jewish institution in Montreal was not an isolated occurance in 2006 a fire bombing occurred at a
Jewish boy school and in 2007 the Jewish Community Center
was firebombed a report of a League for Human Rights identified Montreal as a hotbed of anti Jewish activity in 2006
identifying 215 separate occurrences including desecration of synagogues
destruction of property and assault property crime particularly
vandalism is the most common type of a religiously motivated hate crime and includes burning a religious
institutions campaigning of swastikas on building disability the pervasive stigma that people apply
to both mental and physical illness is expressed in many forms and
discriminatory behaviors against both with disabilities including placing disabled persons that increase risk in
physical and sexual abuse research confirms that people with
disabilities experience heightened risk of sexual physical and emotional abuse where
disability and gender discrimination intersect the incidence of violence is alarming
for example the risk of physical and sexual assault is four to ten times higher for adults
with developmental disabilities them for other adults so speaking found that
eighty-four percent a disabled people who were victims of
sexual violence were female and 93% offenders were male but other studies repeatedly
demonstrated high rates victimization with people suffering from mental
illness nevertheless tremendous barriers exist
to reporting these crimes and to prosecuting them including myths
in the criminal justice system that women with intellectual
disabilities who are victims of sexual violence will not be credible witnesses due to their intellectual or speech limitations and that women
with disabilities are promiscuous incredible in
relationship to gender gender is also historically in the United
States and across the world a characteristic or victimology relationship from hate crimes the
pervasive nature of violence against women in our society has led
many to advocate for this violence to be considered a hate crime betraying violence against women as hate based underscores the
public the societal nature of the crime it moves the focus away from individual
victim thereby reducing the possibility of victim blaming during a
congressional hearing on the hate crime statistics that president of the
National Organization for Women present evidence research and theory to argue
that women were group targeted for violence
due to hate nevertheless gender was not included in the studymore recently it has been added to
federal legislation to legislation of 20 States and to the
model hate crime statute prepared by the anti-defamation league however gender has really been used by
hate crime prosecutions and by 2005 Mcvail and Deninal reported only two successful prosecutions of
gender-related hate crimes their study of prosecutor's attitude support the notion that those
in the justice system find it difficult to fit violence against women into the hate
crime model although legislation Support Center is a
basis for hate crime there's no evidence that the practice will change in the
near future so that produces an interesting paradox
in that this in the struggle to create
legislation that will verify that gender is a veritable related to hate
crimes by virtue of gender itself prosecutors
in people who are involved in the process of trying to create the
legislation for some reason really cannot seem to see gender femaleness in particular as and object of hate crime for virtual
being female you look at this photograph right here on
the slide and is pretty indicative the thinking in that respect you
recognize this as a commercial from carl's junior that ran on television in at a Super Bowl at some point and photographs itself as a total objectification of female form body and first who eats sandwiches that way I mean what is it designed to do to sell burgers well on one hand it might if you feel that that's the way you want
to eat a sandwich but what it is it has a highly sexual
suggestive highly erotic connotation to it and it is
designed more so for the male gaze than it is for selling hamburger I suppose when we say well
then one then we'll go out and buy cheeseburgers as a result of looking at
this but also the sexual connotation is to really hot babes i.e lesbians using cheeseburgers in a very sexual and
erotic way that is called sexual objectification
pure and sample their hamburger ads all over the place
and they sell without this kind of connotations so
one would ask him well what is the point of this to sell hamburgers or to sexualize
the female form many people would say one or the
other but nevertheless though is problematic in our society when we use
these kinds of imaging then to betray women in that light and it also you know is very effective in terms of
creating then the kind of violence we see in some young men in a relationship to the
response to women and the status of women
especially in the twentieth and twenty-first century and the progress the women have made for
example 25-year-old Marc Lepine he was born Gambino Garbin walked into the Ecole Polytechnique de
Montreal on December 6 1989 carrying a Ruger mini 14 semi-automatic rifle that's
not small firepower thats huge firepower he entered a second-floor classroom he separated the men from the women and then ordered the approximately 50 men to leave claiming he was fighting feminism he
shot the nine women who remain killing six and injuring the rest he is reported
to have screamed I hate women, after this Lepine moved to other areas of the building
killing the total fourteen women in four men and injuring 10 additional women the incident ended when
the coward Lepine turned the gun on himself in a
letter found in his jacket he indicated the
attack was politically motivated that is he wished to kill feminist for ruining his life the letter
containing the nineteen names of additional women that he wanted to
kill as well the Montreal massacre became a
galvanizing moment in which morning turned into outrage about all
violence against women the date is remembered by walk and vigil
in cities across Canada this says something really negative about society when the only way that we
will respond in anger and outrage against crime for
this nature an psychotic behavior of this type is when almost thirty 40 people are gunned down by an idiot what do we do to prevent these things
from happening in the first place what do we do to intervene good question for me is when will the legislators
began to realize as well as politicians in general that there is no paradox between legislation and what it
means to be women the fact that this behavior occurs
regularly means the that legislation needs to be
developed that actually characterizes this
phenomenon in ways that will create preventive
measures a lot of food for thought