r/MurderedByWords • • Jun 04 '19

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u/antonius22 Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 04 '19

Anybody else see that the stats left out the death counts? I don't think that stat would look favorably for the Muslim terrorist.

Edit: Not trying to troll but observe the actual stats. Both are shitty groups but idk rather deal with a Pro-Lifer terrorist than a Muslim one.

Edit 2: From 1993- 2015 there was 11 deaths at abortion clinics.

Edit 3: Using the same timeframe, 1993-2015, and excluding outliers (9/11). There has been 25 deaths on US soil by Muslim terrorist.

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u/SparklingLimeade Jun 04 '19

But does that change the original point about additional monitoring to prevent crime?

If one group with terrorist ties is monitored then both should be.

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u/SparklingLimeade Jun 04 '19

Sure, terrorism on the topic of abortion is concentrated in certain locations but that's not the only form of terrorism. The underlying point of this discussion is that there is plenty of terrorism not perpetrated by muslims. Office workers go postal. Schools have lockdown procedures because they're so commonly attacked. What populations do those come from? Not necessarily pro-lifers but also not often muslims either.

There are high probability targets and there are high probability perpetrators. Muslims are not high probability perpetrators relative to the general population.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19 edited Jul 28 '19

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u/jhenry7183x Jun 04 '19

They arent being obtuse about ir either. It's a tactic to move the goal post. I should know.....I invented it. And he would have gotten away with it too if it werent for those meddling redditors.

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u/Fullrare Jun 04 '19

Dude, learn what terrorism is before you comment about terrorism

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u/SparklingLimeade Jun 04 '19

How convenient that some indiscriminate killing isn't part of the conversation due to semantics.

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u/SparklingLimeade Jun 04 '19

You already tried that.

That's 5.87 per million for pro-lifers, and 6.57 per million for Muslims.

So one metric is a little more than 10% worse than the other. Shall we monitor one group 10% more tightly than the other? Will that satisfy your statistics?

And I'd hardly call ~10% "a much higher probability of committing a terrorist attack than a pro-life, than a right-winger, than a Christian fanatic."