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

Was EDL 'Jewish' Division page deleted by Facebook?

Claim: English Defence League 'Jewish' Division facebook page deleted by Facebook.

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Status: False

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EDL's 'Jewish' Division facebook page was deleted, not by Facebook, as the far-right blogger Pamela Geller claimed, but by one unamed admin (of four) for that division.

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Claim:

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Evidence:
'Roberta Moore', a Brazilian who is co-admin for the 'Jewish Division' explains:

BTW, the guy who deleted our EDL Jewish Division page was one of our ADMIN guys, but now he is teaming up with this lot of losers!! I never thought we would be betrayed by our own!! TRAITORS!!!
SHAME ON YOU!!
I hope you are fucking happy now for achieving NOTHING with your pathetic and petty little fucking squabbles. GROW THE FUCK UP!!
We have a big job to do, but you 'children' are fighting for petty things!!
The EDL and their supporters deserve better than this!

Learning to love the Jews: the impact of the War on Terror on the Counter-jihad blogosphere on European far right parties

Learning to love the Jews: the impact of the War on Terror on the Counter-jihad blogosphere on European far right parties

"This paper will use the term counter-jihad to describe to a particular right wing discourse that sees Islam as a threat to the west and Europe. This is more than saying that terrorism committed in the name of Islam is a threat, because it construes non-violent phenomenon such as Islamist political movements, both within Europe and beyond and, importantly, simply the presence in Europe of Muslims as immigrants or descendants of immigrants as existential threats"

"Allah means curse" in Hebrew

Claim: "Allah means curse" in Hebrew.

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STATUS: FALSE

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This claim's origin is unknown to the author, however it seems likely to have originated from the American Christian Right.

The claim can only be accepted by one who does not understand Hebrew, or by someone who deliberately wishes to deceive people who do not understand Hebrew.

An understanding of Hebrew and Aramaic immediately dispels this false claim, as these two very different Hebrew scholars explain: