All Terrorists are Muslims Except the 94%
Yet, Americans continue to live in mortal fear of radical Islam, a fear propagated and inflamed by right wing Islamophobes. If one follows the cable news networks, it seems as if all terrorists are Muslims. It has even become axiomatic in some circles to chant: “Not all Muslims are terrorists, but nearly all terrorists are Muslims.
”Muslims and their “leftist dhimmi allies” respond feebly, mentioning Waco as the one counter example, unwittingly affirming the belief that “nearly all terrorists are Muslims.”
But perception is not reality. The data simply does not support such a hasty conclusion. 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).
Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Soil by Group, From 1980 to 2005, According to FBI Database
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 Islamophobes claim that Islam is intrinsically a terrorist religion. The proof? Well, just about every terrorist attack is Islamic, they retort. Unfortunately for them, that’s not quite true. More like six percent. Using their defunct logic, these right wingers ought now to conclude that nearly all acts of terrorism are committed by Latinos (or Jews). Let them dare say it…they couldn’t; it would be political and social suicide to say such a thing. Most Americans would shut down such talk as bigoted; yet, similar statements continue to be said of Islam, without any repercussions.
The Islamophobes live in a fantasy world where everyone is supposedly too “politically correct” to criticize Islam and Muslims. Yet, the reality is the exact opposite: you can get away with saying anything against the crescent. Can you imagine the reaction if I said that Latinos should be profiled because after all they are the ones who commit the most terrorism in the country? (For the record: I don’t believe in such profiling, because I am–unlike the right wing nutters–a believer in American ideals.)
The moral of the story is that Americans ought to calm down when it comes to Islamic terrorism. Right wingers always live in mortal fear–or rather, they try to make you feel that way.
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The graph in that study is misleading, because about half of the "terrorist" incidents on the list from which it is drawn are from Puerto Rico. That island is technically part of the United States, but it's not reasonable to include, if the result is the claim "half of terrorist incidents are committed by Latinos". Not much better than profiling any other ethnicity. That having been said, it is true that the data from that list support the fact that the majority of terrorist attacks were by non-Muslims. A more accurate title would be: "Except the 86% who are not", since it is 14% Muslims, if the statistical anomaly of Puerto Rico is not included.
ReplyDeleteDavid karesh was a dumbass hick; not a terrorist.
ReplyDeleteMuslims are dangerous. Quote U.K. Sharia law is prevailing in the U.K.
Other countries have also been taken over by mussies.
Oklahoma bombing (not religious).
Cmon you assholes; Islam is growing. It took only one man hitler and his group to screw millions of white Americans and white europeans up to hell.
It only takes a few radical (religious muslims to enact sharia law world wide. Fuck all females right. Circumcise females. Man the U.K. Has # thousands of young girls CUT each year. Not one prosecution yet.
Fuck muslims. The 90 something % that stand by without protest are a problem also,
God bless the U.S.A.!!!!!!!!