The Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee has released a new report full of their usual hysterical and unfounded claims of an “epidemic” of hate crimes against American Muslims. Michelle Malkin shows how disingenuous the report is, in a new column: Myth of the Muslim hate-crime epidemic. (Hat tip: Brenda Walker.)

The ADC researchers’ approach to creating the myth of the Muslim hate-crime epidemic is simple: throw in everything plus the kitchen sink. The ADC report trivializes a few truly heinous, violent attacks – such as the post-Sept. 11 murder of Sikh gas station owner Balbir Singh Sodhi in Mesa, Ariz. – by mixing in unverified reports by school kids who say classmates made fun of their Arabic names, gave them “dirty looks” or pulled off their head coverings. Obnoxious behavior, for sure. But “hate crimes”?

The report cites a female student complaining that someone told her to “go back to wherever she came from.” I get one or two idiotic e-mails expressing the same sentiment every week. Small-mindedness can sting. But should it be a reportable physical offense?

To further pad the hate crimes report, the ADC decries the “hostile commentary” of Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes, terrorism expert Steven Emerson, syndicated columnists Mona Charen, Jonah Goldberg and Ann Coulter, Washington Post columnists Richard Cohen and Charles Krauthammer, the Wall Street Journal editorial page, the Weekly Standard, National Review, and jewishworldreview.com – not to mention talk radio and the entertainment industry, as part of an orchestrated “campaign of racism.”

Meanwhile, during this month alone, Muslims have murdered approximately 500 people in terrorist atrocities in Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Chechnya, Israel, Algeria, the Philippines, and Indonesia (and probably other countries I’m forgetting right now). Is it a “hate crime” to mention this?