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Arizona polygamist leader who had 20 ''wives'' with one as young as 9 years old, sentenced to 50 years in prison |
2024-12-16 |
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… spiritual wives" under the age of 18. The religious leader would force his male followers to atone for their sins by giving him their wives and daughters. According to CBS, Bateman traveled between the states of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and Nebraska to r*pe his victims. The video below happened in August of 2022 when police received a tip that small fingers were reaching out of the trailer. When police stopped the vehicle, they found multiple girls, including three between the ages of 11 and 14. Eight of the children involved in the scheme were put into foster care in AZ but later escaped with the help of an adult "wife" and Bateman. Seven adult wives were also charged for "coercing children into s*xual activity" or impeding the investigation. Related: Polygamist 03/22/2024 Polygamist cult member admits trafficking four underage girls across the Arizona-Utah border in scheme with depraved 'prophet' who took more than 20 wives - including ten children Polygamist 12/05/2022 Bentley-driving Arizona 'Mormon prophet' had TWENTY wives as young as nine including his own daughter, FBI says - and drove them around in a TRAILER with a bucket for a toilet Polygamist 05/29/2021 Photo Log: Here the founder of the Romanov dynasty was tonsured as a monk |
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Home Front: WoT |
The Historic Failure of the Biden Administration |
2024-12-12 |
![]() With just over 40 days left, Americans are nearing the end of the Biden administration, and so it is fitting to provide an assessment of it and to place it in historical context. By any metric from American history and by any objective standard used to measure his predecessors in the White House, the Biden administration has been a catastrophic failure for the American people. Were that it was otherwise. An old man suffering from the horrors of dementia is a tragedy. Biden is not only a dementia patient but also President of the United States. It is clear that now he is more dementia victim than he is president. He cannot stay awake at international meetings and other fora, and he seems to willingly accept the deliberate snubs. Accordingly, as hard as it is to acknowledge, given that he is the President of the United States, world leaders, and Americans know that he has no business being in the nation’s highest office. This impacts all Americans and U.S. national security, and it is important to recognize facts that impact national security as they are, rather than as we would desire them to be. In the years to come, the fiasco of the Biden administration will be explained by multiple factors. We may certainly anticipate that presidential historians will argue that his dementia was debilitating and precluded him from effective leadership, or that his presidency was just a Potemkin Village. Others may assess that Barack Hussein Obama was actually in control through his direct intervention and via surrogates like Susan Rice—who overreached in pushing a radical Marxist agenda. At this point, no matter the causes, it is essential to document the Biden administration’s failures and to learn from them as a cautionary tale about the disastrous impacts of the worst president in American history. Of course, we note that his greatest catastrophes may be yet to come. In domestic policy, Biden destroyed the economy, inflation returned with a vengeance, and America’s borders were opened intentionally. This caused a flood of illegal immigration. Immigration took an unprecedented turn, even an unimaginable one; the U.S. government entered the business of importing people, some 12 to 15 million, and thereby funded the cartels and other criminals and criminal organizations. The true numbers will not be known until Trump comes into office and reveals how this happened and the true impact and parameters of the problem. Another domestic failure has been the massive increase in the federal deficit—one that impacts every American, as well as our national security posture. Likewise, energy security was compromised, and America’s energy independence was lost. These domestic disasters reveal the spirit of the American people was targeted deliberately—in order to usher in a new world order based on the tenets of collectivism and top-down control rather than the principles of individualism, freedom, and liberty. |
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Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua gives 'green light' to members to shoot US cops, Homeland Security memo warns |
2024-07-31 |
[NYPOST] Members of the ![]() ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... n gang Tren de Aragua have been given the "green light" to attack and open fire on cops in Denver, a federal memo obtained by The Post reveals. The gang is already tied to hundreds of crimes, including the shootings of two NYPD cops who were trying to arrest one of its members in June. "Credible human sources from Colorado provided information on TdA [Tren de Aragua] giving a ’green light’ to fire on or attack law enforcement," said the memo, from the Homeland Security Investigations office in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Tren de Aragua members have infiltrated the US by crossing the southern border illegally and asking for asylum. "As you may know, we have a TdA presence here in Chicago, so please be vigilant as you encounter TdA members or affiliates during your investigative and operational activities." The memo added that "Credible human sources from Colorado provided" the intelligence via the Albuquerque Police Department. The warning comes as Denver has gotten 42,000 The prison gang, whose name means "The Aragua Train" — a reference to the Aragua region in Venezuela — has infiltrated the US by sending members posing as asylum seekers across the southern border. From there, its members have flocked to major US cities including New York, Chicago, Miami and Denver, where they engage in money laundering, gun smuggling, theft and human trafficking, according to reports. The US Border Patrol only began tracking the group last year and has recorded catching 70 of its members, according to federal data. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... many are getting past law enforcement at the border and its vetting processes because younger members are careful not to get gang tattoos or other identifiers in order to stay under the radar, sources have told The Post. Related: Tren de Aragua: 2024-07-01 Venezuelan gang smuggles guns into NYC migrant shelters in food delivery bags, accused cop-shooter admits Tren de Aragua: 2024-06-28 Illegal alien who gunned down two NYPD officers says kiIIing cops is his culture. Tren de Aragua: 2024-06-27 Illegal immigrant who allegedly shot 2 NYPD officers at 'point-blank range' indicted on 20 charges |
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Utah in Uproar as Mormon Church Pulls in Thousands of Migrants |
2024-07-26 |
[Breitbart] The Mormon Church — officially the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) — is quietly welcoming thousands of Utah has suffered under the arrival of thousands of cast-off border crossers sent its way by officials in Denver, but even as the state has no resources for Republican Gov. Spencer Cox voiced his outrage in June after he said he just "learned" that Denver had been sending thousands of border crossers to Utah. "We recently learned that the Democrat mayor of Denver has been sending illegal im Cox added, "All 50 states, including Utah, are now border states due to the failed immigration policies of President Biden and Congress. Once again we call on the Biden administration and Congress to solve this crisis." |
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Polygamist cult member admits trafficking four underage girls across the Arizona-Utah border in scheme with depraved 'prophet' who took more than 20 wives - including ten children |
2024-03-22 |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Yet another polygamist cult based on historical Mormonism and surrounding yet another pervert “prophet”.
![]() Moroni Johnson, who faces 10 years to life in prison, pleaded guilty Tuesday to his part in the scheme alongside the self-proclaimed leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), Samuel Bateman. Johnson, 53, is the first man to be convicted in the plot that played out over a three-year period ending in September 2022. It comes after the businessman told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview earlier this year that Bateman took advantage of his deep-seated Mormon faith and controlled him with a toxic mix of physical, mental and sexual abuse. Authorities said Johnson was pressured by Bateman to give up three of his wives as atonement because he wasn't treating the self-anointed leader as a prophet. Bateman, 46, had created a sprawling network spanning at least four states as he tried to start an offshoot of the FLDS, officials say. The cult has historically been based in the neighboring communities of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah. He and his followers practice polygamy, a legacy of the early teachings of the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, commonly referred to as the Mormon church which abandoned the practice in 1890 and now strictly prohibits it. Bateman and his followers believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven. The FBI said Bateman had taken more than 20 wives, including 10 girls under the age of 18. Bateman is accused of giving wives as gifts to his male followers and claiming to do so on orders from the 'Heavenly Father.' Investigators say Bateman traveled extensively between Arizona, Utah, Colorado and Nebraska and had sex with minor girls on a regular basis. Some of the sexual activity involving Bateman was recorded and transmitted across state lines via electronic devices. The FBI said Bateman demanded that his followers confess publicly for any indiscretions and shared those confessions widely. He claimed the punishments, which ranged from a time out to public shaming and sexual activity, came from the Lord, the federal law enforcement agency said. Johnson told DailyMail.com in January that he allowed scheming Bateman to marry several of his wives and most of his daughters – and funded his lavish lifestyle which included two sprawling homes in Colorado City, Arizona, and a fleet of Bentley cars. He claimed he took part in humiliating rituals on Bateman's orders and was, on one occasion, made to have sex with one of his wives in front of their daughters in order to show them how to 'please' the pervert prophet. |
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Hunter's 'Sugar Bro' Evasive Testimony Gets Him Into a Different Kind of Trouble |
2024-01-24 |
[PJ] Hunter Biden's "Sugar Bro," who financially bailed out the president's son from shortly after the moment they met appears to have changed their bromance origin story in a crucial way in testimony before the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees this week. But it's a switch that may get him into more trouble than he is now. A transcript of Kevin Morris's testimony before a joint closed-door meeting of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees reveals that he claims to be Hunter Biden's "global" attorney in all things and may even be his wife's attorney. He'll check his records and get back to the committees about that. Indeed, Morris, a well-respected Hollywood fixer who represents the South Park franchise and its Book of Mormon productions, was asked by multiple questioners, including attorneys and lawmakers, about his financial arrangements with Biden. I outlined these arrangements recently which include an eye-popping payout of $5 million of Hunter's bills, back taxes, and $875,000 in original Hunter Biden art pieces. Morris is married to Gaby Morgerman, the agent for Miley Cyrus and other Hollywood A-listers. Besides being a legal fixer for the South Park and Funny Or Die properties, Morris's clients include actor Mathew McConaughey, according to The Report on the Biden Laptop. And now he claims Hunter Biden as a client. Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said in a statement that Morris's financial support to Hunter Biden "raises ethical and campaign finance concerns for President Joe Biden" because that's the issue. Morris bailed out Hunter from his non-payment of taxes during his dad's presidential run. For obvious reasons, e.g. hookers, blow, crack, more hookers, crack, using human trafficking organizations to get girls, moving women over state lines for sex — a federal offense — were all reasons to avoid federal scrutiny of his taxes. In true Biden fashion, Morris called all of his aid and comfort to Hunter a "loan." Morris testified that he memorialized the loan six months to a year later, which he couldn't remember, in a series of promissory notes. Comer said, "These ’loans’ don’t have to be repaid until after the next presidential election, and the ’loans’ may ultimately be forgiven." In other words, this could be yet another tax evasion tactic for the Bidens — again. Comer went on, "Since Kevin Morris has kept President Biden’s son financially afloat, he’s had access to the Biden White House and has spoken to President Biden." Morris also received a share of Hunter's company, which is affiliated with the Chinese government, from which it's believed he paid the younger Biden's bills, but in testimony before the committees, he couldn't answer what kind of company. He also couldn't remember the amount of money he "loaned" to Hunter even though he was told to prepare for that question. Q In the letter we discussed that we're going to talk about loans. I sent your counsel a letter saying one of the topics that we're going to discuss today is going to be the loans. You're the attorney for Hunter Biden who has represented him since day one. And I just want to be clear, sitting here, you did not prepare as his attorney to know the total amount of loans that you've given Hunter Biden when that was going to be the subject of this interview? The potential problem for Hunter's Sugar Bro is that in acting as his official attorney, he's not allowed to keep a client financially afloat. It is the subject of a bar complaint that the America First Legal group filed in recent days. The bottom line of the testimony is that Oversight and Judiciary want to know how much money flowed in from the Sugar Bro to the Big Guy who sits in the Oval Office. Related: Kevin Morris: 2024-01-23 Kevin Morris invoked attorney privilege at least 17 times to avoid questions about Hunter Biden Kevin Morris: 2024-01-11 Hunter Biden Knew 70% of ‘Anonymous' Art Buyer Identities, Contradicting White House Kevin Morris: 2023-12-08 Hunter Biden indicted on 9 new charges in California related to allegedly failing to pay taxes |
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Rates of syphilis in Salt Lake County have surged by 'alarming' 800% in four years | |
2023-11-11 | |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] SYPHILIS: The above map shows the % change in syphilis cases by state between 2017 and 2021. The disease is exploding across the US after reaching such low levels in 2001 that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggested it could be eradicated. The increase is consistent with national data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which has found STDs like syphilis and gonorrhea increasing year after year. The surge could be due to a lack of access to contraceptives shown to reduce STD risk, like condoms, which are discouraged in the state's largely religious population. About 60 percent of Utah residents are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon church. Just under half of those in Salt Lake County identify as Mormon. According to state health data, syphilis cases in women increased by 800 percent between 2018 and 2022, multiplying from three cases to 27. Experts expect that number to double this year. Of the cases, 89 percent were in women ages 15 to 44. Figures from the CDC found that 3,761 babies were born in the US with the condition in 2022, up from 335 in 2012.
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Home Front: Politix |
Mitt Romney, We Hardly Knew Ye |
2023-11-01 |
![]() It’s also true that Romney is unpopular with Utah voters and had no real chance of reelection after becoming the most prominent elected Republican antagonist of Donald Trump. With Romney’s 30-year political career ending with a whimper, there would naturally be a forceful attempt to shape his legacy as something other than a failure. Fortunately, Romney already made plans for this. The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins, also a practicing Mormon, was already beavering away on a Romney biography that was sure to be sympathetic. Sure enough, very soon after Romney’s retirement announcement, The Atlantic ran a juicy excerpt adapted from the prologue of the forthcoming book. While the excerpt was sympathetic to Romney, in some ways it defied expectations. The tableau it paints of Romney is something of a caricature. A luxury condo in the Watergate was too painful a commute to the Capitol, and Ann Romney doesn’t like spending time in D.C., so he’s living alone in a $2.4 million townhouse on Capitol Hill. He passes the time by watching Ted Lasso reruns on his 98-inch television while eating salmon sandwiches slathered in ketchup because he doesn’t like salmon. (When it comes to food, the septuagenarian Romney, who has declared his favorite meat is "hot dog," seems to have the maturity of a 7-year-old.) When that doesn’t stave off the boredom, he invites over a reporter who will keep him company late into the evenings while he "nurse[s] a morbid fascination with his own death, suspecting that it might assert itself one day suddenly and violently," brags about how his compulsive exercise habits are superior to those of his colleagues in the Senate, and breathlessly recites a litany of petty grievances about his fellow Republicans. Related: Mitt Romney: 2023-10-31 Colleagues Compliment John Fetterman On His Excellent Frankenstein Costume Mitt Romney: 2023-10-29 Former Vice President Mike Pence suspends his 2024 presidential bid Mitt Romney: 2023-10-29 Pence hit with cluebat, ends campaign for the White House after struggling to gain traction |
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-Land of the Free |
Utah Is a Sanctuary State, but One Leader Is (Finally) Standing Up for the Law |
2023-10-25 |
[RedState] There’s a saying among the faithful here in Utah, that we believe in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law – and we do! Well, sort of. In May, it was revealed that Utah had become an unofficial sanctuary state by the regional office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement – ICE, for anyone who’s been under a rock the last eight years – because “non-detention policies have compromised the Salt Lake City Field Office’s ability to support the U.S. Border Patrol and their efforts to stem the current border surge.” Usually, sanctuary status is announced proudly by liberal mayors before they go home to their gated communities. But this one slipped under the radar in Utah – known as so reliably conservative for so long that we’re the only state where Bill Clinton came in third. While the sanctuary status designation is news, our misguided leniency is itself not. Illegal immigrants have been able to get driver's licenses here since 2005. In 2011, the legislature amended state code to grant work permits to them, and this year the legislature made it easier for companies to hire them by increasing the legal threshold for E-Verify from 15 employees to 150. The children of illegal immigrants have had access to in-state tuition since 2002, and this year state Sen. Luz Escamilla made sure they could get free health care too. Now although the ICE memo was blasted to many state leaders, none of them responded until Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs brought the issue up earlier this month. Among the (many) problems on which Staggs has raised the alarm is that apparently one or two sexual assaults in Utah are committed every day by illegal immigrants. But the good news there for sex criminals is that the state lowered the maximum penalty for Class A misdemeanors in 2019, making it harder to deport people whose first encounter with the United States was to break our laws (rather than – again – obey, honor, and sustain them). Our embarrassingly liberal Gov. Spencer Cox has been quick to claim that “Utah has never been, and under my ‘leadership,’ will never become a sanctuary state for illegal immigration” (quotation marks added). But Cox has been very vocal about wanting to flood Utah with as many immigrants as possible regardless of the fact that under his “leadership,” Utah has become worst in the nation for housing affordability. And instead of helping, our state’s corrupt, real estate developer-led legislature benefits doubly from the surge in illegal immigrants, on the one hand employing them to cheaply build over-priced, high-density housing projects then again stuff them in as tenants. While most of Utah is still Utah, the Salt Lake Valley has become an unrecognizable mini-Los Angeles. Those of us who have been watching from the sidelines were grateful to see Staggs’s leadership on this issue – rather than continue to let bad people exploit our kind-heartedness. He is currently running for the US Senate seat vacated by Mitt Romney, but Utah’s least-favorite son is still doing his best to pollute our elections. If Staggs can win the prominence that comes with a victorious Senate election, he might be able to turn things around. Related: Sanctuary state: 2023-08-17 Chicago mayor floats idea of sending migrants to suburbs Sanctuary state: 2023-08-01 Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker Signs Law Allowing DACA Illegal Aliens to Police Americans Sanctuary state: 2023-06-14 Biden's DHS Rewards Sanctuary Cities, NGOs with $290M for Resettling Illegal Aliens in U.S. Related: Spencer Cox: 2023-10-17 Jon Huntsman Jr. says family to stop donations to UPenn over 'silence' on Hamas attack, others follow Spencer Cox: 2023-04-23 Utah state Sen. Mike Kennedy's home vandalized after sponsoring transgender bill Spencer Cox: 2022-09-20 Oregon Apologizes for 'F*ck the Mormons' Chant During BYU Game |
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Dylan Mulvaney in auditions for Broadway's 'Cabaret' |
2023-08-24 |
[PAGESIX] The toast of Mayfair, Fraulein ... Dylan Stench of DeathMulvaney ![]() influencerwho single-handedly trashed a major American beer brand owned by a Belgian company, tainted Maybelline and Condé Nast, and then demanded that anybody who called him/her/it a man be arrested... . Page Six has exclusively learned that the much-discussed actress-turned-influencer — who has gained 10.6 million followers on TikTok documenting her journey as a transgender woman — was invited to audition for the upcoming Broadway revival of "Cabaret." The show, which won seven Olivier Awards in London, is coming to the Great White Way with Eddie Redmayne expected to take the male lead. And we’re told that while the cast for the Spring opening at the August Wilson Theater is already in place, producers have auditioned Mulvaney to take over the female lead British cabaret performer Sally Bowles if the show has a long run in New York. The role has previously been famously played by Liza Minelli, Michelle Williams, Emma Stone and Sienna Miller. Before she became a TikTok superstar, Mulvaney got her bachelors in musical theater and has appeared in a national tour of the "Book of Mormon," playing the lead role Elder White, as well as Off-Broadway productions. |
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Convicted spy and former FBI Special Agent Robert Hanssen dies in prison | |||
2023-06-06 | |||
![]() [CNN] Robert Philip Hanssen, who received payments of $1.4 million in cash and diamonds for the information he gave the Soviet Union and Russia, has died, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Monday. He was 79 years old. Hanssen had been in custody at Colorado’s USP Florence ADMAX since July 17, 2002. Unless his cell is being readied for Brennan, Comey, or one of the Biden crime family, we're not leveraging the vacancy. "On Monday, June 5, 2023, at approximately 6:55 am, inmate Robert Hanssen was found unresponsive at the United States Penitentiary (USP) Florence ADMAX in Florence, Colorado," a release from the Federal Bureau of Prisons said. "Responding staff immediately initiated life-saving measures. Staff requested emergency medical services (EMS) and life-saving efforts continued." "Mr. Hanssen was subsequently pronounced deceased by EMS personnel," the release said. In 2001, Hanssen pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage and conspiracy in exchange for the government not seeking the death penalty. He was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. Investigators accused him of compromising dozens of Soviet personnel who were working for the United States, some of whom were executed. He shared details of several US technical operations such as eavesdropping, surveillance and interception of communications. And he gave the Soviets the US plans of how it would react to a Soviet nuclear attack, both in protecting top government officials and retaliating against such an attack. Hanssen began spying for the Soviet Union in 1979, three years after he had joined the FBI as a special agent. The counterintelligence officer worked as a spy for nearly 15 years, during some of the most consequential times for US and Russia relations and continuing past the end of the Cold War. He took a hiatus from spying for four years in the 1980s after being convinced by his wife, Bonnie.
"I decided on this course when I was 14 years old," says the letter cited in the FBI’s affidavit. "I’d read Philby’s book. Now that is insane, eh!" The FBI began surveilling Hanssen in 2000 after he was identified from a fingerprint and from a tape recording supplied by a disgruntled Russian intelligence operative.
Hanssen apologized for his actions during his sentencing in 2002. "I am shamed by it. Beyond its illegality, I have torn the trust of so many. Worse, I have opened the door for calumny against my totally innocent wife and our children. I hurt them deeply. I have hurt so many deeply," he said.
"The FBI trusted him with some of the most sensitive secrets of the U.S. government, and instead of upholding that trust, he abused and betrayed it," the bureau said in a history of the case on its website. Related: Hanssen: 2023-01-05 Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy Hanssen: 2022-05-20 Inside the Hunt for Russia's ‘Fourth Man' Within the CIA Hanssen: 2017-07-11 Miscellaneous Norwegian Defense Chief in classified report: The Armed Forces can not defend the country Related: Florence: 2023-04-16 Ten Years After the Boston Marathon Bombing, No One Dares Discuss Why It Happened Florence: 2023-02-05 Kenyan citizen among those sentence in US for 7 years in jail in a love scandal case Florence: 2022-12-14 Pervert Mormon cult leader Samuel Bateman is heard ranting about killing followers in 'blood atonement' ritual for their wrongs - as he's pictured with 22 of his 23 wives | |||
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Americans feel more favorably than not about Jews, Protestants, Catholics — survey |
2023-03-18 |
But the haters are noisy beyond their numbers. [IsraelTimes] Most Pew poll respondents hold neutral feelings toward religious groups, but Jews have net positive rating across all surveyed, even as FBI![]() report finds rise in antisemitism Americans hold more favorable than unfavorable opinions on Jews, mainline Protestants and Catholics, according to a new study published this week amid a recent spike in antisemitic incidents in the United States. The Pew survey said atheists, Moslems, and Mormons were viewed more unfavorably than favorably, but most respondents felt neutral or responded with "don’t know enough to say" when asked about each group. The poll found 34 percent of non-Jewish US adults held positive opinions about Jews, against 7% who held unfavorable views. Fifty-eight percent of respondents didn’t know or felt neutral about Jewish people. The study also found that Jews are the only group that received a net positive rating across all groups surveyed. For example, Protestants view Jews more favorably (45%) than unfavorably (6%). The survey comes after an FBI report on Monday found that antisemitic incidents in the US spiked by nearly 20% in 2021 compared to 2020. The updated FBI statistics counted 817 anti-Jewish criminal offenses reported by local law enforcement agencies in 2021, up from 683 in 2020 — a year when people largely stayed off the streets for a substantial period due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 numbers, however, represent a 15% decline from 2019, when the FBI reported 963 hate crimes, as well as a slight decline from 2018 when FBI statistics show 847 hate crimes. According to Wednesday’s Pew findings, Americans are more likely to rate a group favorably if they know a person belonging to that religion. For example, the survey found that 42% of non-Jews who know a Jewish person expressed favorable opinions of the group, compared to 21% of those who don’t personally know a Jew. The study also found that the share of those who express a negative opinion of Jews is similar regardless if they are acquainted with one (6%) or not (7%). Along partisan lines, both Republicans (38%) and Democrats (33%) view Jews positively, while identical shares had unfavorable views (6%). Overall, more respondents held more favorable than unfavorable views about mainline Protestants (30%), Catholics (34%), and Evangelical Christians (28%). Mainline Protestants were viewed negatively by 10% of respondents, Catholics by 18%, and Evangelicals by 27%. Most respondents felt neutral toward or didn’t know enough about Protestants (59%), Catholics (47%) and Evangelicals (44%). Among those viewed more unfavorably than favorably were atheists (24%), Moslems (22%), and Mormons (25%). Only 20% of respondents viewed atheists favorably, 17% Moslems and 15% Mormons. More than half said they felt neutral about atheists (55%), Moslems (59%), and Mormons (59%). Pew polled 10,588 US adults for the survey. |
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