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Originally Posted by tweedle
An unfortunately the FACT is, more people will be murdered by people claiming to be muslims. 90% of the population understand this is not ALL Muslims. But it is people claiming to be muslim.
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Do you have a source for this "FACT"? Are you talking worldwide, or regarding a specific country?
If you are talking about the US, given the subject of this thread, then I'm afraid that your "FACT" is not actually true.
New York Times: Homegrown Extremists Tied to Deadlier Toll Than Jihadists in U.S. Since 9/11
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Originally Posted by By SCOTT SHANE, NEW YORK TIMES, JUNE 24, 2015
WASHINGTON — In the 14 years since Al Qaeda carried out attacks on New York and the Pentagon, extremists have regularly executed smaller lethal assaults in the United States, explaining their motives in online manifestoes or social media rants.
But the breakdown of extremist ideologies behind those attacks may come as a surprise. 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, including the recent mass killing in Charleston, S.C., compared with 26 by self-proclaimed jihadists, according to a count by New America, a Washington research center...
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OK, that's from June, and since then fourteen people were murdered in the San Bernadino shootings, taking it to 40... although the recent Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs resulted in the deaths of three people, with the suspect being a white right-wing extremist who claims to be a Christian, making it 51 versus 40 (when adding on just those two incidents).
And, of course, the non-Muslim count is likely to actually be even higher given America's daily mass shootings...