The
most popular article published on LoonWatch was released in January of 2010: that article showed that, according to the official FBI website, only 6% of terrorist attacks in the United States from 1980-2005 (the only years where data was available) were committed by Muslims.
I published a
follow-up article to look at the picture across the pond: I cited official data from Europol, which releases an annual terrorism report entitled
EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (TE-SAT). The first available such report was for the year 2006. The data from
2006,
2007, and
2008 showed that about 0.4% of terrorist attacks in the European Union were committed by Muslims–less than 1% (actually, less than half of 1%).
Today, I’d like to update our readers with new Europol data: the data for
2009 and
2010 is now available.
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This “mega-table” shows that from 2007 to 2009, out of 1,317 terrorist attacks only 3 of them were committed by Muslims. From a percentage standpoint, that means
only about 0.2% of terrorist attacks in Europe were committed by Muslims in those years–again, far less than 1%.
We’ve all heard the oft-repeated saying of Islamophobes that “all Muslims might not be terrorists, but (almost) all terrorists are Muslims!” Without any shadow of doubt, this mantra is patently false. Not just that, but certainly in the case of Europe it’s completely reversed from reality:
all Muslims aren’t terrorists, and almost no terrorist attacks are committed by them–less than 1%.
Some have already received consequences. Further personal attacks will produce more. Cease, now.
