{"id":937,"date":"2010-10-05T17:42:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T07:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=937"},"modified":"2016-07-26T18:38:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T08:38:22","slug":"all-terrorists-are-muslims%e2%80%a6except-the-94-that-aren%e2%80%99t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"All Terrorists are Muslims Except the 94% that Aren’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNN recently published an article entitled Study: Threat of Muslim-American terrorism in U.S. exaggerated<\/a>; according to a study released by Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, \u201cthe terrorist threat posed by radicalized Muslim-Americans has been exaggerated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, Americans continue to live in mortal fear of radical Islam, a fear propagated and inflamed by right wing Islamophobes.\u00a0 If one follows the cable news networks, it seems as if all terrorists are Muslims.\u00a0 It has even become axiomatic in some circles to chant: \u201cNot all Muslims are terrorists, but nearly all terrorists are Muslims.\u201d Muslims and their \u201cleftist dhimmi allies\u201d respond feebly, mentioning Waco as the one counter example, unwittingly affirming the belief that \u201cnearly all terrorists are Muslims.\u201d<\/p>\n

But perception is not reality.\u00a0 The data simply does not support such a hasty conclusion.\u00a0 On the FBI\u2019s 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.\u00a0 That list can be accessed here<\/a> (scroll down all the way to the bottom).<\/p>\n

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Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Soil by Group, From 1980 to 2005, According to FBI Database<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to this data, there were more Jewish acts of terrorism within the United States than Islamic (7% vs 6%).\u00a0 These radical Jews committed acts of terrorism in the name of their religion.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Yet notice the disparity in media coverage between the two.\u00a0 It would indeed be very interesting to construct a corresponding pie chart that depicted the level of media coverage of each group.\u00a0 The reason that Muslim apologists and their \u201cleftist dhimmi allies\u201d 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.\u00a0 If a terrorist attack does not fit the \u201cIslam is the perennial and existential threat of our times\u201d narrative, it is simply not paid much attention to, which in a circuitous manner reinforces and \u201cproves\u201d the preconceived narrative.\u00a0 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?\u00a0 Surely what he does not know does not exist!<\/p>\n

The Islamophobes claim that Islam is intrinsically a terrorist religion.\u00a0 The proof?\u00a0 Well, just about every terrorist attack is Islamic, they retort.\u00a0 Unfortunately for them, that\u2019s not quite true.\u00a0 More like six percent.\u00a0 Using their defunct logic, these right wingers ought now to conclude that nearly all acts of terrorism are committed by Latinos (or Jews).\u00a0 Let them dare say it\u2026they couldn\u2019t; 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.<\/p>\n

The Islamophobes live in a fantasy world where everyone is supposedly too \u201cpolitically correct\u201d to criticize Islam and Muslims.\u00a0 Yet, the reality is the exact opposite: you can get away with saying anything against the crescent.\u00a0 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?\u00a0 (For the record: I don\u2019t believe in such profiling, because I am\u2013unlike the right wing nutters\u2013a believer in American ideals.)<\/p>\n

The moral of the story is that Americans ought to calm down when it comes to Islamic terrorism.\u00a0 Right wingers always live in mortal fear\u2013or rather, they try to make you <\/strong>feel that way.\u00a0 In fact, Pamela Geller (the queen <\/em>of internet Islamophobia) literally said her mission was to \u201cscare the bejeezus outta ya.\u201d<\/a> Don\u2019t be fooled, and don\u2019t be a wuss.\u00a0 You don\u2019t live in constant fear of radicalized Latinos (unless you\u2019re Lou Dobbs), even though they commit seven times more acts of terrorism than Muslims in America.\u00a0 Why then are you wetting yourself over Islamic radicals?\u00a0 In the words of Cenk Uygur: you\u2019re at a ten when you need to be at a four.\u00a0 Nobody is saying that Islamic terrorism is not a matter of concern, but it\u2019s grossly exaggerated.<\/p>\n

Related Posts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Europol report: All terrorists are Muslims\u2026Except the 99.6% that aren\u2019t<\/a><\/p>\n

RAND report: Threat of homegrown jihadism exaggerated, Zero U.S. civilians killed since 9\/11<\/a><\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A reader by the name of Dima <\/strong>added:<\/p>\n

The FBI Terrorism Report shows\u2026[that] the highest number of terrorist incidents in the U.S. by region (90) took place in Puerto Rico.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Second Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n

An Islamophobe commented on this article, saying that the statistics are flawed because the FBI included small acts such as \u201cstealing rats from a lab\u201d as an act of terrorism.\u00a0 Of course, this is patently false.\u00a0 Here is a breakdown of the terrorist attacks by type (the pie chart is from the FBI\u2019s official website and can be accessed here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

\"Terrorism<\/p>\n

Terrorism by Event, From 1980 to 2005, According to FBI Database<\/p>\n

Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNN recently published an article entitled Study: Threat of Muslim-American terrorism in U.S. exaggerated; according to a study released by Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, \u201cthe terrorist threat posed by radicalized Muslim-Americans has been exaggerated.\u201d<\/p>\n

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: \u201cNot all Muslims are terrorists, but nearly all terrorists are Muslims.\u201d Muslims and their \u201cleftist dhimmi allies\u201d respond feebly, mentioning Waco as the one counter example, unwittingly affirming the belief that \u201cnearly all terrorists are Muslims.\u201d Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11,8,44,31,6,45],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":7893,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ttSq-f7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}