Posted on 06/24/2015 1:14:06 PM PDT by rightistight
NBC News is reporting that white people are the "biggest terror threat in the U.S." citing a study. Oddly, despite the headline, "White Americans Are Biggest Terror Threat in U.S.: Study," in the text of their quick article, NBC, does not actually say that white people are the biggest terror threat.
Instead, NBC's article reads, "The New America Foundation found that twice as many people have died in attacks by right-wing groups in America than by Muslim extremists since 9/11."
...Besides the obvious problems with NBC's clickbait headline, there other tremendous problems with the "study." First, it specifically excludes September 11, 2001. If it was included, it would show that Islamic extremists have killed 62 times as many people as "right-winged groups."
Second, the study includes "right-winged extremists" who murdered people as terrorists, including someone who killed a person during a bank robbery, but excluded people like Ali Muhammad Brown, who murdered a 19-year-old "as an act of vengeance" against the United States for deaths of Muslims overseas.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesocialmemo.org ...
Homegrown Radicals More Deadly Than Jihadis in U.S.
NYTimes | June 24, 2015 | SCOTT SHANE
Posted on 06/24/2015 7:46:27 AM PDT by PROCON
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3303638/posts
That is huge considering they only comprise 12-13%.
Mika?
You know this is garbage. The New York Times ran some numbers THE DAY AFTER 9/11... If radical muslims don’t have to count killing THREE THOUSAND AMERICANS then they ‘win’... of course most people think three thousand Americans count.
Why would you post this knowing it’s a lie?
The New York Times did it - and they started their ‘study’ the day AFTER 9/11. Meaning THREE THOUSAND AMERICANS MURDERED BY MUSLIMS DON’T COUNT.
The number of people killed by ‘white conservatives’ was something like 48... Less than the number of people killed domestic black terrorist groups (gangs) in the last two days.
This crap should not be posted here...
Besides the obvious problems with NBC's clickbait headline, there other tremendous problems with the "study." First, it specifically excludes September 11, 2001. If it was included, it would show that Islamic extremists have killed 62 times as many people as "right-winged groups."
These type of claims are yet another classic example of how the media lie with statistics. Let's take their numbers at face value. Since 9/11, 48 Americans have been killed by Islam-inspired acts of terror while 26% have been killed by acts of terror committed by "far right" whites.
What this fails to mention is that Muslims are less than 1% of the population, and yet they account for 35% of terrorist acts, i.e. 35 fold more likely to commit an act of terrorism than anybody else.
The NBC claim also conveniently ignores cases of black on white racial crimes in its self-serving definition of politically motivated terrorism.
White liberals are tearing this country apart!
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