re: #9 CuriousLurker

Really? You need it spelled out? If 82% of all deaths from terrorist attacks occur in 5 countries, then that leaves only 18% spread around the rest of the world. If you have verifiable facts showing that more than 2% of the deaths in 2014 (which is approximately 359 out of 17,958) were attributable to Islamic extremism in Europe, then present them. Otherwise, stop with the distortions, scare mongering, and insults to lawhawk.

The claim was that only two percent of the terrorism IN EUROPE was related to Islamic extremism. Statistics of any sort having to do with the rest of the world have nothing whatsoever to do with that claim. The only way you or anyone could substantiate the claim would be to come up with terrorist killings, not related to Islamic extremism, committed in Europe, and fifty of them for every one related to Islamic extremism.

The tube bombings in London and Madrid, the spate of murders in Toulouse, Dijon, Nantes, and Paris, alone yield numbers far beyond reach of the required fifty to one ratio of other terrorist killings IN EUROPE.

You can read. You know perfectly well that no discussion of terrorism anywhere else in the world has anything to do with the point at issue.

You can get any number of red dings on my posts, and green dings on yours, but you’re still wildly wrong. You demand of me statistics that are not related to the question. This shows that you want the question to be changed. You are intelligent enough to know that twisting the question is not legitimate, reasoned debate, but mere polemics.

You spell out, not your ignorance, for you are not making an innocent mistake here, but your penchant for saying whatever it takes to gain points with an audience unwilling or disinclined to read carefully.