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Are All Terrorists Muslims? It�s Not Even Close

What percentage of terror attacks in the United States and Europe are committed by Muslims? Guess. Nope. Guess again. And again...

�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.


However, and this will probably shock many, so you might want to take a breath: Overwhelmingly, those who have committed terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe aren�t Muslims. Let�s give that a moment to sink in.

Now, it�s not your fault if you aren�t aware of that fact. You can blame the media. (Yes, Sarah Palin and I actually agree on one thing: The mainstream media sucks.)

So here are some statistics for those interested. Let�s start with Europe. Want to guess what percent of the terrorist attacks there were committed by Muslims over the past five years? Wrong. That is, unless you said less than 2 percent.

As Europol, the European Union�s law-enforcement agency, noted in its report released last year, the vast majority of terror attacks in Europe were perpetrated by separatist groups. For example, in 2013, there were 152 terror attacks in Europe. Only two of them were �religiously motivated,� while 84 were predicated upon ethno-nationalist or separatist beliefs.

We are talking about groups like France�s FLNC, which advocates an independent nation for the island of Corsica. In December 2013, FLNC terrorists carried out simultaneous rocket attacks against police stations in two French cities. And in Greece in late 2013, the left-wing Militant Popular Revolutionary Forces shot and killed two members of the right-wing political party Golden Dawn. While over in Italy, the anarchist group FAI engaged in numerous terror attacks including sending a bomb to a journalist. And the list goes on and on.

Have you heard of these incidents? Probably not. But if Muslims had committed them do you think you our media would�ve covered it? No need to answer, that�s a rhetorical question.
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.

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.

And as a 2014 study by University of North Carolina found, since the 9/11 attacks, Muslim-linked terrorism has claimed the lives of 37 Americans. In that same time period, more than 190,000 Americans were murdered.

In fact in 2013, it was actually more likely Americans would be killed by a toddler than a terrorist. In that year, three Americans were killed in the Boston Marathon bombing. How many people did toddlers kill in 2013? Five, all by accidentally shooting a gun.

Taike, people are stupid and they love it.

Tell me about it.

Dangerous toddlers, though.

A fantastic news report by Waleed Aly an Australian reporter who is also a Muslim. He absolutely nails it.

Thank you, Nigel. I so agree with Waleed Aly. And, yes, he absolutely nails it. I call them terrorists but I won't call them Muslims for that would discredit every decent and peace-loving Muslim who condemns all this violence. I think it's about time that the media/governments start calling them terrorists only without even giving them the honor of being called Muslims. I had several conversations with Muslims when I was in Bangkok and they all said that these terrorists were NOT Muslim, that they didn't deserve to be called Muslim. According to them -and I agree with them- it's all about power and they use Islam in order to gather support from the people. Once they have what they want, the people are no longer of any use to them. Basically Politics 101.

We must get closer together whether Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or whatever the religious faith and not highlight differences. That is what ISIS wants. We are all humans that just want to live a good life together without this extremist insanity.

Yes, indeed....

Not A Muslim

Strong graphics! Thanks, Nigel. Always enjoyed your "world vision" of issues related to music, but REALLY enjoy your reasoned discussions of world situations.



Russ