Comment by dragonwriter
9 years ago
> What's the ratio when you count deaths? I'm on mobile but iirc it's about 90% killed by Islamic terrorists.
53% Islamist, 47% (other, as Islamist actually fit this description too) far-right, 0% other. (So the ratio is closer to 1:1 than the 9:1 you suggest)
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/aug/16/...
That GAO report for all intents and purposes counts any murder by a person affiliated with a right wing group as an act of terror, including prison beatings, death of a homeless man etc and lumps them in with legitimate acts of terror.
http://www.gao.gov/assets/690/683984.pdf
But that standard is consistent across every group, so you can hardly argue it's unfair when it's universally applied.
It is unfair if we're talking about terrorism, because prison murders are not terrorism.
If we're going to talk about murders in a more general sense, you have to start looking at populations and then note that whites in the US are far, far more prevalent than Muslims.
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