Welcome to this week’s ALL TOGETHER — the podcast dedicated to exploring how ethics, religion and spiritual practice inform our personal lives, our communities and our world. ALL TOGETHER is hosted by Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, executive editor of HuffPost Religion. You can download All Together on iTunes, or Stitcher.
At a vigil at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Farris Barakat spoke about his brother Deah Barakat, Deah’s wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, and Yusor’s sister, Razan Abu-Salha. All three were shot execution style on the afternoon of February 10th in their Chapel Hill apartment. All three were good students, fun, altruistic, family oriented . . . and all three were Muslims.
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Defining a Hate Crime
A hate crime is a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias. For the purposes of collecting statistics, Congress has defined a hate crime as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation.” Hate itself is not a crime—and the FBI is mindful of protecting freedom of speech and other civil liberties.
