Are most terrorists Muslim?

Claim: "Most of the world's Muslims are not terrorists, but most of the world's terrorists are Muslims"

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Status: False

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This claim was first made by the vitriolic polemicist Ann Coulter.

This claim was repeated without attribution on the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), a Pat Robertson channel, during a plug for counterjihadi Robert Spencer's book 'Religion of Peace'.

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Response

"the threat from Islamic terrorism is much more minimal than commonly assumed; in the U.S., it accounts for 6% of terrorist attacks, and in Europe not even half of a percent"

United States

"I used official FBI records to show that only 6% of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil from 1980 to 2005 were carried out by Islamic extremists. The remaining 94% were from other groups (42% from Latinos, 24% from extreme left wing groups, 7% from extremist Jews, 5% from communists, and 16% from all other groups)."

Europe

"The results are stark, and prove decisively that not all terrorists are Muslims. In fact, a whopping 99.6% of terrorist attacks in Europe were by non-Muslim groups; a good 84.8% of attacks were from separatist groups completely unrelated to Islam. Leftist groups accounted for over sixteen times as much terrorism as radical Islamic groups. Only a measly 0.4% of terrorist attacks from 2007 to 2009 could be attributed to extremist Muslims."

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References
1. Not All Terrorists are Muslims
2. Extremism in Europe