Speaker after speaker documented a rising tide of infringements on free speech and freedom of religion and warned that more were in prospect - particularly as a result of the U.S. co-sponsored "hate speech" resolution in the U.N.
I'm speaking with Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which keeps track of hate groups in the U.S., and Randy Blazak, an associate professor at Portland State University, who also studies hate groups.
According to the FBI compilation of hate crime statistics in the U.S., drawn from between eleven and fifteen thousand participating federal, state, and local agencies, since and including 2001, hate crimes against Muslims in the United States have averaged about 2% of all reported hate crimes each year.