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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Except the ones that are not.
It crosses that fine line of bigotry when people start spouting out 99% of terrorist attacks are perpetrated by Muslims as fact because that's simply not true. Not all Muslims are terrorists and not all terrorists are Muslims. When certain people (and obviously not aimed at you) ignore this it's because of some sort of bias.
And it's especially telling when it's rarely brought up by those people that Muslims, regardless of how you define terrorism, are the largest victims of terrorists worldwide. A fact largely ignored when bringing up the Muslims terrorists statistics. It's ignoring the social underlining that many of the Muslim nations are currently in a terrible state. It's different recruiting and indoctrinating impressionable minds when they are from a country torn by war, famine and death than it would be to go up to an upper-middle class family with a cushy living.
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Some valid points here. It's hyperbole to flagrantly paint the entire faith and those who practice it with the same brush, and 99% of all terrorist attacks obviously aren't perpetrated by Muslims, but that doesn't detract from the fact that extremist Islam has become a dangerous force in many parts of the world.
To that point -and that which I've made bold above- I think it's perhaps too often floated around that terrorism's strictly some by-product (or primarily so) of poor social conditions or economic strife. These are often rather intelligent individuals who've simply been deluded by the blindfold of faith, and are espousing this openly in the public sphere for all to hear. The 9/11 hijackers, for example, were for the most part hardly a by-product of substandard conditions, and were in fact relatively well-off and many were college/university educated.