New York Times: “Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims: 48 have been killed by extremists who are not Muslim, compared with 26 by self-proclaimed jihadists, according to a count by New America, a Washington research center.”
“The slaying of nine African-Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church last week, with an avowed white supremacist charged with their murders, was a particularly savage case. But it is only the latest in a string of lethal attacks by people espousing racial hatred, hostility to government and theories such as those of the ‘sovereign citizen’ movement, which denies the legitimacy of most statutory law. The assaults have taken the lives of police officers, members of racial or religious minorities and random civilians.”
“Non-Muslim extremists have carried out 19 such attacks since Sept. 11, according to the latest count, compiled by David Sterman, a New America program associate, and overseen by Peter Bergen, a terrorism expert. By comparison, seven lethal attacks by Islamic militants have taken place in the same period.”
Although these statistics are likely to be used by many people to argue that right-wing (including Christian) extremists pose a more serious threat than Muslim religious extremists, what they really show is that incidents of terrorism are extremely rare and that they have a far greater mental and emotional impact on the US than their actual impact.
According to these statistics, there have been a total of 74 deaths caused by terrorists of any type over a period of more than 13 years. By comparison, according to the CDC there were 16,121 homicides in the US in 2013 alone. In other words, there were more than 200 times as many homicides in just one year as terrorist-caused deaths during a 13+ year period.
I notice the 2002 DC-area sniper attacks are not included. That is hard to categorize…
With “protectors” like the NRA, who needs jihad?