Showing posts with label Robert Spencer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Spencer. Show all posts

Friday, 30 July 2010

Are most terrorists Muslim?

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


Status: False


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'.




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."



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

Monday, 12 November 2007

CounterJihad Conference Brussels 2007

CounterJihad Conference Brussels 2007
Submitted by Sandi on Mon, 2007-11-12 22:22

The Centre for Vigilant Freedom sponsored a conference on October 18 and 19, 2007 in Brussels. The aim, to bring together writers, academics, activists and politicians who are working on counterjihad initiatives across Europe.

Transcripts, audio’s and links from this conference can be found here.

I thoroughly recommend checking this out, especially to the individual reports from each country and this (video) speech from author and blogger Robert Spencer.

What is CVF?
The Centre for Vigilant Freedom is a dedicated group of people with a mission to “protect liberty, counter sharia laws that oppose human rights, and defeat terrorist and extremist ideologies.”