Care to back up the part in bold with some hard research? Either conducted by yourself or someone else - preferably some person(s) or organization of reasonable credibility?
I will give you (and your brand of liberal-secular types) the following to mull over:
1(a). "All Terrorists are Muslims…Except the 94% that Aren’t"
Source: loonwatch.com/2010/01/not-all-terrorists-are-muslims/
Publication Date: 20 Jan 2010
(b). "Europol Report: All Terrorists are Muslims…Except the 99.6% that Aren’t"
Source: loonwatch.com/2010/01/terrorism-in-europe/
Publication Date: 28 Jan 2010
Note: The second article is a follow-up to the first
Quotes: "I used official FBI records to show that only 6% of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil from 1980 to 2005 were carried out by Islamic extremists. The remaining 94% were from other groups (42% from Latinos, 24% from extreme left wing groups, 7% from extremist Jews, 5% from communists, and 16% from all other groups)."
"a whopping 99.6% of terrorist attacks in Europe were by non-Muslim groups; a good 84.8% of attacks were from separatist groups completely unrelated to Islam. Leftist groups accounted for over sixteen times as much terrorism as radical Islamic groups. Only a measly 0.4% of terrorist attacks from 2006 to 2008 could be attributed to extremist Muslims."
References Used:
[1] EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Reports, from 2007, 2008 and 2009
[2] US Dept of Justice / FBI 2002-2005
2. Kurzman, C. (2011). The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists. Oxford University Press
Note: Kurzman is a Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Quote (from Amazon's book description): "Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world--many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom--why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs?
[...]
Charles Kurzman draws on government sources, public opinion surveys, election results, and in-depth interviews with Muslims in the Middle East and around the world
[...]
As easy as terrorism is to commit, few Muslims turn to violence. Out of 140,000 murders in the United States since 9/11, Islamist terrorists have killed at most three dozen people. Of the 150,000 people who die each day, worldwide, Islamist militants account for fewer than fifty fatalities--and only ten per day outside of the hotspots of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan [MY NOTE: All three of which have foreign wars imposed on them]. The real bulwark against Islamist violence, Kurzman finds, is Muslims themselves, who reject both the goals of the terrorists and their bloody means. With each bombing, the terrorists lose support among Muslims."
So what exactly is it that is more offensive? Your conviction of, or your regurgitation of, the easy propagandist lie that "All terrorists are Muslims"?
Boo hoo, sob, hick, sob ...
