NYT: Since 9/11-Nearly 2x as many people killed by WHITE SUPREMACISTS, ANTI-GOV FANATICS, NON-MUSLIM

[kpete]

New York Times: “Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims: 48 have been killed by extremists who are not Muslim, compared with 26 by self-proclaimed jihadists, according to a count by New America, a Washington research center.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/us/tally-of-attacks-in-us-challenges-perceptions-of-top-terror-threat.html

[66 dmhlt]

1. The sad thing is that this does NOT surprise me one bit.

[66 dmhlt]

2. The sad thing is that this does NOT surprise me one bit.

[kpete]

3. me

either

[ck4829]

4. Jim Adkisson (Who also shot up a church) said something similar to Roof

This comment on Fox News, if it's not him, I would really be surprised. "j adkisson" has never posted anything since, he never denied it, same name, etc. While Roof murdered for racist reasons, Adkisson murdered to get at those liberals. But there seems to be a parallel between them.

"Comment by j adkisson
February 25th, 2008 at 9:54 am

yes i belive he is muslium and if we put him in office ,all the muslium will take over,the blacks always cry they are not treated fair will its the other way around now we have let them take over and we are being treated bad now and also the turbam people run or own about everthing now and we let them ,excuse me except the hot temper little one that is there now and he owns oil wells and company doi you exp"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3693609&mesg_id=3693617

[City Lights]

5. But we musn't call them terrorists!

[whatthehey]

6. But that ratio is still horribly damning

Yes 26 killings in 14 years is a fleabite, and yes broadbrushing all the millions of US Muslims as potential terrorists is lunacy.

But Muslims are 0.8% of the US population. If they are guilty of 35% of terrorism related US deaths that's a hugely skewed contribution. Even if we assume we are missing some terrorism deaths in the mix and that 35% goes down, there are clearly way more than 1.6% of the population who are right-wing anti-government racists, so that 26:48 ratio still speaks horribly of the different rate of terrorism from Muslims even when compared to the vilest section of the far right.

Of course the math works the other way too. .8% of the population is about 2.5 million people. Worrying about a couple of deaths a year from a population that size as anything other than discrete acts of criminality is rather exaggerated.