The Myth of the Non-Muslim Terrorist

[Nightshade]

Since January, 2010 the Islamic propaganda outlet, Loonwatch.com, has prominently posted an article with the title "All Terrorists are Muslim… except the 94% that aren’t." Although not saying exactly who it is that believes "all terrorists are Muslim", the gist of the piece is that an FBI report from seven years ago concluded that the vast majority of attacks have nothing to do with Islam.

As Loonwatch puts it:

Only 6% of terror attacks are by Muslims

7% of terrorism is by Jewish extremists

66% of terror attacks are by leftists and Latinos

This would appear to defy common sense. Reports of bombings, shootings, stabbings and even beheadings by terrorists cross the newswire each day. Some are indeed the work of communist groups or nationalists, but the vast majority are clearly the product of Islamic extremists who kill in the name of religion.

Loonwatch is playing a couple of tricks here - the biggest being that they are drawing on domestic data only. In other words, when they say that 94% of terrorists aren't Muslim, they actually mean in the United States, where terror attacks are relatively rare and Muslims make up only 1% of the population.

So, if we ignore the overwhelming bulk of attacks across the globe, Muslims are "only" six times more likely to commit acts of terror than the general population. The numbers get even worse for Loonwatch on closer examination.

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages ... rcent.aspx

[Ferno]

80% of domestic terror attacks are committed by homegrown citizens.

I'll keep repeating this every time you post another 'muslims are bad' thread.

[Nightshade]

80% of domestic terror attacks are committed by homegrown citizens.

I'll keep repeating this every time you post another 'muslims are bad' thread.

islam is bad. Get it right.

[Ferno]

by that logic, Buddhism is bad. Taoism is bad. Sikhism is bad.

next?

[Nightshade]

by that logic, Buddhism is bad. Taoism is bad. Sikhism is bad.

next?

Will Buddhists murder you for not being Buddhist?

[callmeslick]

a handful will, and have, in desperate situations. His point is correct, NS.

[vision]

Will Buddhists murder you for not being Buddhist?

Ashin Wirathu

[Ferno]

Ashin Wirathu

Trump with a robe.

[Spidey]

Buddhists aren’t killing Muslims because there are not Buddhists, they are killing them because they are Muslims.

If Buddhists were killing people because they were not Buddhists, the victims would not be limited to Muslims, which the Buddhists have a history with in that region.

A subtle difference I’m sure some of you will quibble with, but an important difference none the less.

[Ferno]

Buddhists aren’t killing Muslims because there are not Buddhists, they are killing them because they are Muslims.

If Buddhists were killing people because they were not Buddhists, the victims would not be limited to Muslims, which the Buddhists have a history with in that region.

A subtle difference I’m sure some of you will quibble with, but an important difference none the less.

Have you known an muslim to be both a buddhist and a muslim? This is just like saying a person broke a mirror because it was and was not a mirror. It makes no sense. You're talking out of both sides of your mouth here.