spindrift Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 On the FBI’s official website, there exists a chronological list of all terrorist attacks committed on U.S. soil from the year 1980 all the way to 2005. That list can be accessed here (scroll down all the way to the bottom). http://www.fbi.gov/publications/terror/terrorism2002_2005.htm According to this data, there were more Jewish acts of terrorism within the United States than Islamic (7% vs 6%). These radical Jews committed acts of terrorism in the name of their religion. These were not terrorists who happened to be Jews; rather, they were extremist Jews who committed acts of terrorism based on their religious passions, just like Al-Qaeda and company. Yet notice the disparity in media coverage between the two. It would indeed be very interesting to construct a corresponding pie chart that depicted the level of media coverage of each group. The reason that Muslim apologists and their “leftist dhimmi allies” cannot recall another non-Islamic act of terrorism other than Waco is due to the fact that the media gives menial (if any) coverage to such events. If a terrorist attack does not fit the “Islam is the perennial and existential threat of our times” narrative, it is simply not paid much attention to, which in a circuitous manner reinforces and “proves” the preconceived narrative. It is to such an extent that the average American cannot remember any Jewish or Latino terrorist; why should he when he has never even heard of the Jewish Defense League or the Ejercito Popular Boricua Macheteros? Surely what he does not know does not exist! The data gathered by Europol strengthens my argument even further. http://www.europol.europa.eu/index.asp?page=publications&language= Europol publishes an annual report entitled EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report. On their official website, you can access the reports from 2007, 2008, and 2009. The results are stark, and prove decisively that not all terrorists are Muslims. In fact, a whopping 99.6% of terrorist attacks in Europe were by non-Muslim groups; a good 84.8% of attacks were from separatist groups completely unrelated to Islam. Leftist groups accounted for over sixteen times as much terrorism as radical Islamic groups. Only a measly 0.4% of terrorist attacks from 2007 to 2009 could be attributed to extremist Muslims. We have analyzed data from America and Europe (a good portion of the entire Western world), and the threat from Islamic terrorism is much more minimal than commonly assumed; in the U.S., it accounts for 6% of terrorist attacks, and in Europe not even half of a percent. It is only through sensationalism and fear mongering that the topic of Islamic terrorism is allowed to be used to demonize a religious community that happens to be a minority in the West. When confronted by such lunacy, we ought to respond with the facts and the truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyfriday Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 That's very interesting spindrift and challenges the stereotypical view of where terrorists come from. I'd like to see the breakdown of fatalities caused by the various acts of terrorism, the Muslim extremists probably punch above their weight in that respect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindrift Posted August 19, 2010 Author Share Posted August 19, 2010 The thing is , I've explained this before, and given the breakdown of terrorist activity in Europe and how muslims carry out a tiny percentage of all terrorism. Yet the myth still propogates that the opposite is true. This means people are posting what they know are racist lies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Technically, you've proven that the claim "most terrorists are Muslim" is false; this data tells us nothing about how many Muslims are terrorists. The claim that "most Muslims are terrorists," on the other hand, is self-evidently false. There are two billion and some Muslims, and not above a few thousand have ever been involved in terrorism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindrift Posted August 19, 2010 Author Share Posted August 19, 2010 You're right headingnorth "Most terrorists are muslism" is clearly a wildly hysterical distortion. I was looking for noddyholder's assertion of this racist lie but it appears to have been deleted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 The thing is , I've explained this before, and given the breakdown of terrorist activity in Europe and how muslims carry out a tiny percentage of all terrorism. Yet the myth still propogates that the opposite is true. This means people are posting what they know are racist lies. Do we have figures comparable to this for terrorism in the rest of the world? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 So, if Muslims were 6% and Jews were 7% who are the other 87%? And why does the OP bang on about Jewish extremist terrorists being more horrid than Islamist extremist terrorists when they is clearly bugger all between them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindrift Posted August 19, 2010 Author Share Posted August 19, 2010 Do we have figures comparable to this for terrorism in the rest of the world? Yep: Most of the victims of terrorist activity is by large Muslims themselves. In Pakistan over 10.000 people have been killed since the start of the “War on Terror”. Over 700 Pakistanis has been directly killed by americans themselves under the Drone War. Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (which is a seperate group and not part of the Afgan Taliban and Mullah Umar’s group) and BLA are directly supported and funded by indian security agency RAW from Afghanistan under a US provided umbrella. These people alone are responsible for 1000’s of human lives in Pakistan. Total death toll in Afghanistan since the US invation: ca. 500.000 humans. Total death toll in Iraq since the US occupation: 1,2 million people as of 2008 according to a British organization (actually the only organisation. which ever did such a research in Iraq as the Americans “do not keep track on bodies”. You would be hard- pushed to find any evidence that all terroists, globally, muslim or anything else have killed more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindrift Posted August 19, 2010 Author Share Posted August 19, 2010 And why does the OP bang on about Jewish extremist terrorists being more horrid than Islamist extremist terrorists I did nothing of the kind. Moral equivelence doesn't come into it and I'll thank you for not putting words in my mouth. I said they were similar to islamic terrorists, not worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindrift Posted August 19, 2010 Author Share Posted August 19, 2010 In South Asia, one must not forget the Tamil Tigers, who are mostly Hindus. Plus in Chechnya the struggle is nationalistic rather than religious. The question is how does the myth propogate that most terrorism is Islamic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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