Jews, Sikhs worst victims of hate attacks in US: FBI

Washington: Jewish and Sikh religious groups were the worst victims of hate crimes in the United States in 2021. This information comes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) annual report on such incidents across the country.

A total of 1,005 cases of hate crimes related to religion were reported in 2021, the FBI said. Anti-Jewish incidents accounted for 31.9 percent of the largest categories of religion-based crimes.

This was followed by 21.3 per cent of anti-Sikh incidents. At the same time, anti-Muslim incidents were 9.5 percent, anti-Catholic incidents were 6.1 percent, and anti-Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, other) incidents were 6.5 percent.

At the same time, black or African-Americans were also targeted on a large scale and their number was 63.2 percent.