Ian Tuttle of National Review Online takes a closer look at the Obama administration’s fascination with the threat of Islamophobia.

Like Newton’s or Mendel’s or Rothman’s, an incontrovertible law seems to govern the reaction to acts of Islamic terrorism in the U.S. It runs something like this: If the perpetrators of terrorism are Muslims, the most pressing problem American authorities face is not Islamic terrorism; it’s anti-Muslim rhetoric/crime. Thus, as the nation reeled from the deadliest act of Islamic terrorism on American soil since September 11, Loretta Lynch declared her “greatest fear” to be the “incredibly disturbing rise of anti-Muslim rhetoric” in the U.S., and promised that her Justice Department would “take action” (though how, precisely, is a matter of dispute).

But just how common are crimes against Muslims?

According to the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report, there were 1,014 hate-crime incidents motivated by religious bias in 2014. Of those, 154 — 15.2 percent — were anti-Islamic, a slight uptick from 2013’s 135 incidents (13.1 percent).

How alarming are 154 anti-Islamic crimes? Consider this: Last year saw 609 anti-Jewish incidents — meaning that American Jews were about four times as likely to be victimized on account of their religion as were American Muslims. Anti-Jewish attacks accounted for 60 percent of religiously motivated hate-crime incidents. Additionally, not only are anti-Muslim crimes lower in the aggregate; they happen at a lower rate. While there is one anti-Muslim crime for every 29,221 American Muslims (using a Muslim population of 4.5 million, extrapolating from various estimates), there is one anti-Jewish crime for every 11,166 Jews.

Where is the outcry about the epidemic of anti-Jewish violence?

For those inclined to even more provocative comparisons, there were 593 “anti-white” hate-crime incidents in 2014 — making white Americans 3.9 times as likely to be victimized for their race as were Muslims to be victimized for their religion. And anti-white crime constituted 23 percent of racially motivated hate-crime incidents last year.

Why isn’t Loretta Lynch panicked about the number of anti-white hate crimes?