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An FBI report shows that only a small percentage of terrorist attacks carried out on U.S. soil between were perpetrated by Muslims. Approximately 2.5% of all terrorist attacks on U.S. soil between 1970 and 2012 were carried out by Muslims. This is a tiny proportion of all attacks. 4.9% were carried out by Jewish groups such as Jewish Armed Resistance, the Jewish Defense League, Jewish Action Movement, United Jewish Underground and Thunder of Zion. This is almost twice the percentage of Islamic attacks within the United States. If we look at worldwide attacks – instead of just attacks on U.S. soil – Sunni Muslims are the main perpetrators of terrorism. However: 1. Muslims are also the main victims of terror attacks worldwide; and 2. the U.S. backs the most radical types of Sunnis over more moderate Muslims and Arab secularists.)
An FBI report shows that only a small percentage of terrorist attacks carried out on U.S. soil between were perpetrated by Muslims. Approximately 2.5% of all terrorist attacks on U.S. soil between 1970 and 2012 were carried out by Muslims. This is a tiny proportion of all attacks. 4.9% were carried out by Jewish groups such as Jewish Armed Resistance, the Jewish Defense League, Jewish Action Movement, United Jewish Underground and Thunder of Zion. This is almost twice the percentage of Islamic attacks within the United States. If we look at worldwide attacks – instead of just attacks on U.S. soil – Sunni Muslims are the main perpetrators of terrorism. However: 1. Muslims are also the main victims of terror attacks worldwide; and 2. the U.S. backs the most radical types of Sunnis over more moderate Muslims and Arab secularists.)
How irrelevant. So if you have a rabid dog roaming your neighborhood that kills two people, that's ok because 4 people died in car accidents, one person was hit by lightning, and 6 more died of heart attacks.
First of all, fantastic argument. You almost got me with that. You must have done great in school and you're almost surely very successful, because who wouldn't want to hire you, what with your superior intellect.
Second, no. It's not. Terrorism, as properly defined, is basically any act of violence with some sort of political motivation. Islamic terrorism is one of many kinds of terrorism, and in the US, it's not the most common. It's possible the Muslim terrorists carry out the most elaborate or most successful, but not in terms of actual quantity of attacks (bare in mind, this has no significance in death toll). Most attacks just aren't necessarily news worthy at a national level.
As for the other part, which I doubt you even read because your political bias blinders went up, pointing out that at a world scale, Muslims, Sunnis in particular, do commit the most acts of terrorism. They are, however, generally contained within their own countries.
How irrelevant. So if you have a rabid dog roaming your neighborhood that kills two people, that's ok because 4 people died in car accidents, one person was hit by lightning, and 6 more died of heart attacks.
**** analogy. Acts of terrorism all have certain commonalities. You use a dog, an act of God, car accidents, and heart disease in one analogy as if anything actually would allow these to be reasonably compared. By your logic, Coca-Cola may as well be a terrorist organization because of how they contribute to obesity.
As for it's relevance, that's dependent on what the relevance of the opposites is. Unlike most 'liberals,' I'm not overly opposed to Trump's immigration policy. I think a wall is an unnecessary construction project design primarily to show how big our collective American penis is, but I have no issue with barring immigration from high risk countries temporarily and tightening security. But then ideas like a 'Muslim registry' are thrown around, and that's where we have to start drawing lines. That's a clear violation of civil liberty. Trump may not really fully support it, but he did bring it up, and there are people who do. What happens when senators and representatives start pushing for it? Those are dangerous paths to follow.
And ultimately, correct information is never irrelevant. As it stands, the average America is incredibly unlikely to be in any harms way when it comes to radical Islam. Currently, the actual threat to American citizens is low. Aside from using an artificially inflated fear to support ones agenda (also known as, being evil as **** ), there is no benefit for people thinking that Islamic terrorism is some kind of wide spread problem in the US. The threat exists more outside the US than anything. We should do whatever we can to keep it that way, but let's not pretend we have a lot of internal things we need to do to Muslims living in America, who statistically are of no real concern.
An FBI report shows that only a small percentage of terrorist attacks carried out on U.S. soil between were perpetrated by Muslims. Approximately 2.5% of all terrorist attacks on U.S. soil between 1970 and 2012 were carried out by Muslims. This is a tiny proportion of all attacks. 4.9% were carried out by Jewish groups such as Jewish Armed Resistance, the Jewish Defense League, Jewish Action Movement, United Jewish Underground and Thunder of Zion. This is almost twice the percentage of Islamic attacks within the United States. If we look at worldwide attacks – instead of just attacks on U.S. soil – Sunni Muslims are the main perpetrators of terrorism. However: 1. Muslims are also the main victims of terror attacks worldwide; and 2. the U.S. backs the most radical types of Sunnis over more moderate Muslims and Arab secularists.)
Oh boy.
1. It's called collateral damage. Suicide bombings? My guess is that you've never seen or been around a real terrorist attack. Like when a car bomb goes off in Mosul and kills 40/wounds 100+.
It's a very old statistic. I've seen it before in different forms. The category with the most 'terrorist' attacks turned out to be those staged against corporate interests by ecological groups. How do you count terror attacks that were plotted and funded on US soil but carried out both in the US and on foreign soil? I'm speaking specifically of the hundreds of attacks against Cuban interests carried out by Cuban exiles, the CIA, and the Mafia.
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), there is no benefit for people thinking that Islamic terrorism is some kind of wide spread problem in the US. The threat exists more outside the US than anything. We should do whatever we can to keep it that way, but let's not pretend we have a lot of internal things we need to do to Muslims living in America, who statistically are of no real concern.