Well, I prefer a less muddled and more focused discussion. If there was a thread about the Christian right in the USA and their violence against abortion clinics I wouldn't introduce violent acts by people with other religions. And a thread about attempts at cheating in voting in the USA in my eyes would be in no need of contributions about vote cheating in the GDR. The there-are-crimes-everywhere-of-all-kind-and-by-all-sorts-of-people approach is not helpful in my eyes. The bride burning by Hindus for instance can be discussed in the context of their culture, their tradition and, even, their faith. No need to discuss other crimes in the same thread.

lobby your government for stricter laws against these crimes
FYI, in Germany, the government doesn't make the laws (that was roughly sixty years ago).
But lobbying for these aims is an activity that I can wholeheartedly support.

fostering a climate of hate against entire groups of people
That is neither my intention nor I believe the effect of my posts though you do the worst you can to make it look as if it could. Even if an evil action would be found to be more often committed by one group of people than by another (like, for instance, rape by men) the mention of such a fact only could foster hate against the whole group in people whose judgement or thinking ability I would not trust. I would actively argue against such a wrong inference for it commits a serious error: If there was, to use the above example, a sororicide in Germany the probability is be quite high that this crime has been committed by a Muslim, but the probability that any Muslim would commit this crime is very low. Two extremely different things. But I'm not willing to stop thinking publicly about the differential incidence of this crime and reasons for it just because of the danger that some stupid idiot gets the wrong ideas.

Wolfgang