First off, it is explicitely stated that the data is for attacks on American Soil. Beyond neatly leaving off the hundreds of attacks since '01 off american soil, it leaves out 3 of the most prominent terrorist attacks of the timeline mentioned - the attack on the barracks in beruit, the attack in the berlin disco, and the bombing of the USS Cole, I think there was a couple embassies bombings too. The FBI has every reason not to include these attacks, their mission is primarily stateside, the author of this rather vicious rant did not, it's just intellectual dishonesty warping data while spewing some of the worst bile I've seen in a while. I'd almost half expect the author looked up the figures assuming right-wing terrorist attacks would make up a big chunk of that pie chart and was so ticked that it wasn't that they wrote this whole thing in a fit of rage.
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Chancellor of the Landsraad, Archduke of Is'Mod
All Terrorists are Muslims… except the 94% that aren’t.
01/02/2010 10:42:12 PM
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Lot of BS in there
01/02/2010 11:33:08 PM
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I'm afraid I have to agree with this.
01/02/2010 11:46:02 PM
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Well, no. Robbery accounts for a very small percentage of those attacks. Look at the chart.
01/02/2010 11:50:39 PM
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I found the so-called Islamophobic reply... allow me to quote it in its entirety.
01/02/2010 11:52:37 PM
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It's a valid complaint. *NM*
02/02/2010 01:49:08 AM
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I did note the rampant bias.
01/02/2010 11:48:55 PM
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Most of the Iraq violence isn't against the foreign occupier...
01/02/2010 11:54:44 PM
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Um, since when is all Mid-East terrorism against foreign occupiers?
02/02/2010 12:33:13 AM
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I would agree with this.
02/02/2010 02:33:47 AM
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It was bound to happen sooner or later.
02/02/2010 04:10:13 AM
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This is the only problem I have with "definitions"
02/02/2010 04:51:00 AM
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You're conflating two types of fighters who shouldn't be, I believe.
03/02/2010 06:16:21 AM
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I think you missed the point.
05/02/2010 05:15:40 AM
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One of us did.
05/02/2010 08:26:07 AM
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Churchill's justification of bombings cited civilians as the targets, IIRC
03/02/2010 12:46:16 AM
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I did say, "deliberately, " and for a reason.
03/02/2010 04:23:44 AM
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WTF? Are these people serious?
02/02/2010 02:19:05 AM
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Ah, good. I've driven you out of lurking. Now recommend me operas. *NM*
02/02/2010 02:41:30 AM
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So I presume the article meant to highlight that Muslim American citizens aren't all that violent?
03/02/2010 04:17:06 AM
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How many other attacks killed almost 3,000 people of over 90 different nations?
03/02/2010 06:26:23 AM
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