The crime rates are often an excuse for hate-motivated agitation. But dig a bit deeper, and you have to change your mind: Most agitators will pose some "fact"

The crime rates are often an excuse for hate-motivated agitation. But dig a bit deeper, and you have to change your mind: Most agitators will pose some "fact" as "crime rate among muslim is double as high". Yeah, right, but still the rest of the population is committing way more crimes. There's no reason to feel more threatened by them. If you are going to get mugged, killed or whatever, most likely it will be by the majority population - except if you are living in a neighbourhood or city where the majority has segregated the minority...