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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on August 08, 2015, 02:45:40 PM
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Are All Terrorists Muslims? It’s Not Even Close
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/14/are-all-terrorists-muslims-it-s-not-even-close.html
“Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.†How many times have you heard that one? Sure, we heard Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade say it, but to me, that was simply part of the Fox News plan to make their viewers dumber, as we saw again this past weekend when its terrorism “expert†Steve Emerson was caught fabricating the story that Birmingham, England, is closed to non-Muslims. But more alarmingly, even some reasonable people have uttered this statement.
And that comment is often followed up by the question: Why don’t we see Christian, Buddhist, or Jewish terrorists?
Obviously, there are people who sincerely view themselves as Muslims who have committed horrible acts in the name of Islam. We Muslims can make the case that their actions are not based on any part of the faith but on their own political agenda. But they are Muslims, no denying that.
Let's see shall we. Most deadly terrorist attacks are carried out by Muslims and guess who gets killed the most overall? Muslims.
These 5 countries accounted for nearly all the world’s terrorism deaths last year
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/11/18/these-5-countries-accounted-for-nearly-all-the-worlds-terrorism-deaths-last-year/
The five countries are:
Iraq — where 2,492 incidents in 2013 left 6,362 dead.
Afghanistan — where 1,148 incidents left 3,111 dead.
Pakistan — where 1,933 incidents left 2,345 dead.
Nigeria — where 303 incidents left 1,826 dead.
Syria — where 217 incidents left 1,078 dead.
Those are Muslim dominated nations excluding Nigeria. Iraq and Syria are overrun by ISIS, Nigeria is Boko Haram, and Afghanistan and Pakistan by Taliban.
Even after one of the worst terror attacks ever in Europe in 2011, when Anders Breivik slaughtered 77 people in Norway to further his anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, and pro-“Christian Europe†agenda as he stated in his manifesto, how much press did we see in the United States? Yes, it was covered, but not the way we see when a Muslim terrorist is involved. Plus we didn’t see terrorism experts fill the cable news sphere asking how we can stop future Christian terrorists. In fact, even the suggestion that Breivik was a “Christian terrorist†was met with outrage by many, including Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly.
Anders Breivik was not a Christian Fundamentalist or even remotely one.
Have you heard about the Buddhist terrorists? Well, extremist Buddhists have killed many Muslim civilians in Burma, and just a few months ago in Sri Lanka, some went on a violent rampage burning down Muslim homes and businesses and slaughtering four Muslims.
Or what about the (dare I mention them) Jewish terrorists? Per the 2013 State Department’s report on terrorism, there were 399 acts of terror committed by Israeli settlers in what are known as “price tag†attacks. These Jewish terrorists attacked Palestinian civilians causing physical injuries to 93 of them and also vandalized scores of mosques and Christian churches.
Back in the United States, the percentage of terror attacks committed by Muslims is almost as miniscule as in Europe. An FBI study looking at terrorism committed on U.S. soil between 1980 and 2005 found that 94 percent of the terror attacks were committed by non-Muslims. In actuality, 42 percent of terror attacks were carried out by Latino-related groups, followed by 24 percent perpetrated by extreme left-wing actors.
Now, you are saying most terrorists attacks are committed by leftists. Right?
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Muslim and terrorist go together like peas and carrots.
Or, as they say in Bayou La Batre, GinnyGumps.
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1980 to 2005 that's a bit disingenuous. What about, oh, say 2001 to the present, for the percentage of muslim attacks.