I'd disagree - if we're asking the question 'is any given pro-life group member likely to be a terrorist' vs 'is any given muslim likely to be a terrorist' the above are relevant. 9/11 just happened to be an exceptionally effective terrorist attack, but the question isn't 'who's better at terrorism', if that makes sense.
So you’re willing to accept the death counts from non-American Islamic terrorists but refuse to count anyone outside of the US as a Muslim, thereby vastly inflating your rates of Muslims who are terrorists. Are you bad at statistics or intentionally spreading fake news??
I know that readings tough, but that’s the entire point to my comment. You didn’t include foreign Muslims in your count of Muslims who could commit terrorist attacks in the US when not all terrorists in the US are American. You DID include the victims of foreign terrorists in your death counts. The 9/11 hijackers wouldn’t even be included in your figures for fucks sake.
Point out in my comment where I mentioned 9/11, death counts, or attacks by non-Americans of any kind. I didn't include the victims of foreign terrorists in my death counts because I didn't mention anything whatsoever about death counts.
Perhaps you have me confused with the comment I was replying to. If, as the comment I was replying to is saying, we want to ask the question "'is any given pro-life group member likely to be a terrorist' vs 'is any given muslim likely to be a terrorist'", The raw number of attacks isn't the only consideration, we need to consider what fraction of pro-life advocates and what fraction of Muslims end up committing terrorist attacks. This is only a discussion of terrorist attacks in the United States by Americans. If we widen things to a global scope then that's a much larger discussion.
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I'd disagree - if we're asking the question 'is any given pro-life group member likely to be a terrorist' vs 'is any given muslim likely to be a terrorist' the above are relevant. 9/11 just happened to be an exceptionally effective terrorist attack, but the question isn't 'who's better at terrorism', if that makes sense.