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Terrorism Poll

Is 90 - 95% of terrorism committed by Muslims?

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sKiTzo said:
Whatever you say - I can see you're teeming with intelligence
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Seeing as I had to educate you about Gaddafi's involvement in ordering terrorist attacks and arming groups across the world.....yep, I'd say so.
 
Tigerace117 said:
Seeing as I had to educate you about Gaddafi's involvement in ordering terrorist attacks and arming groups across the world.....yep, I'd say so.
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Your education comes from "official" sources and is therefore limited to nothing more than propaganda.
 
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There IS a reason WHY Muslims are engaged in terrorism ..We need the ''better people" to find out .. and learn .. NOT bigoted racists like trump and so many others .
 
sKiTzo said:
The creation of this poll is not motivated by racism or prejudice because I am neither racist nor prejudiced towards any group of people.
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I have some bad news for you. Saying you're not racist is kind of like telling a woman you're a nice guy. If you feel the need to try and convince people you're not racist, then you almost certainly are. Racism is a lot like alchoholism. Denying that you are racist isn't any more productive than trying to tell someone you can quit drinking any time you want. Everyone is a racist to some degree or another. What seperates better people from worse people is that some of us are recovering racists, the rest are still in denial. Admitting to yourself that you might be at least a little bit racist is generally the first step towards looking inwardly and identifying the subtle things you do, say and think that actually are kind of bigotted.

With respect to your a poll. It is an objective fact that most of the Terrorist attacks carried out in the United States since 9/11 were carried about by white men. More specifically right wing extremist men. Right wing extremist militias are rampent throughout the United States. While their may be a handful of muslim extremists who will carry out random one off attacks today there are over 276 right wing militia groups filled with extremists preping for what they believe will be another civil war.

What is keeping them from turning even more violent is the fact that white conservative men still have enough political power that they don't feel the need to resort to violence. Before the 2016 election however there were Republican politicians literally calling for armed rebellion if Hillary Clinton the presidency. I guarentee you there would be even more violent extremism from those groups if she had. That isn't a reason not to vote for her, or future Democrats, but I guarentee you that Right Wing Extremist Militants pose a greater threat to the United States of America than any muslims do.

In any religion you have your fanatics who are absolutely convinced theirs is the only correct religion, and they are willing to use force if necessary to insure it. The only difference between Muslims and Christians is that Christians have enough political power in the world that they don't need to resort to violence. There is enough of them that they have a legtimate chance of winnig elections and installing their radical ideas the via legal means. As soon as they feel that power slipping away they will revolt, and it will not be pretty.
 
90% to 95%?!

Well, we could vote in accordance to our feelings, OR...

According to the United States Government Accountability Office report to congressional requesters in April 2017...
While the September 11, 2001, attacks were perpetrated by foreign violent extremists, from September 12, 2001 through December 31, 2016, attacks by domestic or “homegrown” violent extremists in the United States resulted in 225 fatalities, according to the ECDB. Of these,

- 106 were killed by far right violent extremists in 62 separate incidents
- 119 were victims of radical Islamist violent extremists in 23 separate incidents.
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So, while Islamists killed more, the far right tripled the amount of their attacks. About the scary immigrant...
When it comes to the hundreds of convictions related to Islamic extremism achieved in U.S. federal courts since 9/11...the vast majority of individuals convicted have been U.S. citizens.
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Of course, then there is the very select type of the suicide terrorist, which is what this poll might have wanted to narrow in on. In 2003, Robert A. Pape, current director of the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST), completed a study in which he investigated all 315 suicide terrorist attacks between 1980 and 2003. 1980, by the way, marks the beginning of this current historical wave of suicide terrorism. (One must look back to the Japanese Kamikaze for the last wave.) Anyway, 301 of these attacks were carried out as parts of eighteen organized coercive campaigns. And the reason the tactic spread was because it proved to work (think Beirut in 1983). During this period...

- Half of the suicide attacks were associated with Islamic fundamentalism.
- Suicide terrorism spread to Sri Lank in 1990 (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - LTTE).
- Suicide terrorism spread to Israel in 1994 (Hamas).
- Al-Queda began the tactic in 1995 against American troops in the Middle East.
- Suicide terrorism spread to Turkey in 1996 (Kurdistan Workers Party - PKK)
- However, from 1987-2001, LTTE represented more suicide attacks than any other terrorist organization (not Islamic).

Some more facts on suicide terrorism...

- In suicide terrorism, the coercer is the weakest actor and the target is the stronger.

- What all suicide campaigns had in common was the goal of compelling democracies to withdraw military forces from the terrorists' national homeland. This means that terrorists aim their violence towards the emotions of the people who choose their leaders (think Bin Laden and 9/11).

- Suicide terrorism is a weapon of last resort. Once "rebels" and such run out of conventional or guerrilla options, suicide terrorism becomes their last coercive strategy.

- According to a report issued by the National Counterterrorism Center in 2011, “in cases where the religious affiliation of terrorism casualties could be determined, Muslims suffered between eighty-two and ninety-seven percent of terrorism-related fatalities over the past five years.” So it is the Muslim that should be concerned, not the white man sitting in Iowa.

- According to a study conducted by Erin Kearns at the Georgia State University, attacks perpetrated by Muslims receives far more focus in the media than others. She and others examined news coverage from LexisNexis Academic and CNN.com for all terrorist attacks in the United States between 2011 and 2015. Controlling for target type, fatalities, and being arrested, attacks by Muslim perpetrators received, on average, 449% more coverage than other attacks. And this was from a study about CNN! You have to wonder where Fox sits. The implication is the encouraged mood to think that there is a Muslim bogeyman waiting around every corner to kill you because of your freedom.
 
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sKiTzo said:
The news media pushes their opinions and views as if they're speaking for all americans. I believe they are now mostly propaganda. Trump is trying to keep our cities from becoming another Baghdad or Tel Aviv or Beirut. Therefore, he is trying to minimize the flow of potential terrorists into the country. Who are the terrorists? Are they French? Norwegian? African? Maybe one or two. Are they Canadian? British? Japanese? Let's see...um....how about Muslim? Are they Muslim? That is the subject of this poll. The creation of this poll is not motivated by racism or prejudice because I am neither racist nor prejudiced towards any group of people. I'm just trying to bring to the surface what the media obfuscates.
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In America, no, definitely not. Far right extremists actually commit more than twice as many terrorist attacks as extremists Muslims.
 
The vast majority of terrorist attacks are committed by Muslims. Failure to acknowledge this is just intellectual dishonesty. To say that it is only 90-95% Muslim is to under assess the number of attacks committed my Muslims.
 
In America, Christians commit more acts terrorism than any other group. Preachers terrorize parents, parents terrorize their kids, and the kids terrorize each other.
 
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We do grow our own terrorists, but why in the world would we want to import even more?
 
MrWonka said:
I have some bad news for you.

Saying you're not racist is kind of like telling a woman you're a nice guy.

If you feel the need to try and convince people you're not racist, then you almost certainly are.

Racism is a lot like alchoholism. Denying that you are racist isn't any more productive than trying to tell someone you can quit drinking any time you want.

Everyone is a racist to some degree or another. What seperates better people from worse people is that some of us are recovering racists, the rest are still in denial.

Admitting to yourself that you might be at least a little bit racist is generally the first step towards looking inwardly and identifying the subtle things you do, say and think that actually are kind of bigotted..
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I heard racists know a lot of analogies and comparisons to racism...
 
Waddy said:
We do grow our own terrorists, but why in the world would we want to import even more?
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Where are they grown.?
 
SapphireSpire said:
In America, Christians commit more acts terrorism than any other group. Preachers terrorize parents, parents terrorize their kids, and the kids terrorize each other.
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Preachers terrorize parents? This is a new one so I will bite.

How do they do that?
 
Bodhisattva said:
Preachers terrorize parents? This is a new one so I will bite.

How do they do that?
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I heard one claim trans people are "very angry people". I thought of the Chiqita banana costume woman at fantasy fest and laughed. Well, I turned to the person next to me, said "that's laughable", we both laughed and got shushed.
 
Bodhisattva said:
Preachers terrorize parents? This is a new one so I will bite.

How do they do that?
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By spreading the horrible message of "God's word". They make everyone afraid of nothing which makes people do crazy things.
 
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SapphireSpire said:
By spreading the horrible message of "God's word". They make everyone afraid of nothing which makes people do crazy things.
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Hmmm... seems you got it about as wrong as can be...
 
molten_dragon said:
How exactly is someone supposed to keep members of a religion out of the US. Has it never occurred to you that when asked if they're muslim, a terrorist might lie?
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I recall, during the primary for the last presidential election, Jeb Bush being asked this very question. If memory serves, his response was "you can tell".
 
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