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Originally Posted by ernie
Plenty of data that suggest that the uncomfortable truth mentioned a few posts above isn't really any sort of truth for the western/industrialized world.
over 90% of terrorists attacks in the US since 1980 have nothing to do with Islam. Europol statistics show that 2% of terror attacks over the past 5 years were perpetrated by Islamic groups or individuals.
It becomes the majority of reasoning in Africa and most of asia.
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One of the problems with the data is how "terrorism" is defined. This still cause of considerable debate.
But if you look at the relatively significant terrorist acts in t he United States since 2000, you would almost certainly come to a different conclusion than the Europol data would suggest.