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Hate crimes against Muslims had increased by 250 percent between 2012-2015.<br \/>\nThe report noted, however, that changes in police procedures and unreported crimes could skew the true figure.<br \/>\n\u201cFluctuations in the annual number of incidents can be influenced by changes in local police service practices and community involvement, as well as the willingness of victims to report incidents to police,\u201d the report stated. \u201cThe number of hate crimes presented in this release likely undercounts the true extent of hate crime in Canada, as not all crimes are reported to police.\u201d<br \/>\nWhile reported hate crimes against Muslims dropped, there was a 3 percent overall increase in hate crimes to 1,409 in 2016, due to \u201cmore incidents targeting South Asians and Arabs or West Asians, the Jewish population, and people based on their sexual orientation,\u201d the StatsCan report said.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s 47 more reported hate crimes in 2016 than the previous year.<br \/>\nMost of the drop in Muslim-targeted hate crimes is attributable to Quebec, where 16 fewer incidents were reported than in 2015.<br \/>\nAttacks against Jews had the largest increase in hate crimes, jumping to 221 in 2016 from 178 reported incidents the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hate crimes in Canada directed at Muslims dropped in 2016 after four years of steady increases, according to a Statistics Canada report released Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c102-muslim-minorities"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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