re: #316 CuriousLurker

(Lawhawk, I’m not picking on you or mad at you, I’m just annoyed with the constant scaremongering B.S. coming from politicians and the media.)

Didn’t think you were.

I had initially posted about the plane incident the other day, and at the time, it didn’t look like there were any fatalities. Turns out there was one, along with several injured. As you note, the plane was flying between two Muslim majority nations, and the majority of those on board would be Muslim. Had the plane crashed, all or nearly all the victims would have been Muslim.

And every day there’s a constant stream of terror attacks primarily in the Middle East, but also South Asia and East & North Africa plus Nigeria perpetrated by people claiming to be Muslims whose targets are also Muslim, though perhaps of a different sect or are seen as being insufficiently Muslim (apostate).

The religious intolerance is taken to its extremes with ISIL/Daesh as well as Boko Haram or Al Shabaab, and domestic politicians attempt to show the threat from Islamic terror as great or greater than at any time since 9/11.

The statistics don’t bear that out - particularly in the US. Outside of NYC, the odds of being the victim of an Islamic terror attack, especially one linked to a foreign terrorist organization directly, is remote. You’re far more likely to be killed by some right wing nutter than an Islamic terror group. NYC is still a high profile target, but even here it’s still safer than say in Iraq or Syria, where the targets and victims are nearly all Muslim.