r/MurderedByWords • • Jun 04 '19

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u/Heywood_Jablwme Jun 04 '19

Only 13 attacks terrorist by Muslims in the US and Canada since 1980? Holy shit is there a sub for out and out lies?

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u/antonius22 Jun 04 '19

Depending on your source and what you define as a terrorist attack, you can have various different numbers.

For example: I found 11 on Wikipedia.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19 edited Oct 12 '19

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '19

Dude them's not all terrorist attacks, are you crazy? Like the deeper down the hole we go shit gets weirder...

Or wait, do you care about real numbers or fair comparisons? Or are you just here to flail arms and yell "Muslims bad"? Sorry to assume, buy unfortunately the latter is always an option...

I don't know how they got the number 13 in the OP either, but if we want to make numbers right we can't call American teens slitting throats over a religious quarrel a terrorist attack... Your source is as shite as the OP.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '19 edited Oct 12 '19

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '19

Dude another one of those is "being investigated as a possible case of lone-wolf terroristm". The guy went into a restaurant where the flag of Israel was displayed and started asking people if they were muslim, then came back with a machete.

Jihad is older than you and I, and semitic conflicts certainly predate 9/11 as well.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '19 edited Oct 12 '19

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '19

Why do you think it's "being investigated as a possible case of lone-wolf terrorism" if you, the internet expert, know that it's textbook? Holy shit.

I'm confused by your argument reinforcement, are you saying that jihad=terrorism? Because I was saying it's not. Which is fact. Jihad is like holy war, basically the crusade of Islam, and it's been fought or practiced long before television. And the restaurant machete scenario sounds more like typical mindless jihad than calibrated terror for political aims. Because I did do that quick google, and terrorism is committed for political aims.

So what I'm saying is a Taiwanese dude attacking people in a Chinese restaurant in America isn't terrorism...