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International Project on Terrorism dissects 'Global Terrorism Database Study, reaffirms threat of Islamic Jihad in America. SPLC-Touted Terrorism Study Casts a Wide Net to Downplay Islamic Extremism by Benjamin Baird, Special to IPT News , October 26, 2018 Looking to "blow off steam," a pair of teenagers broke into the Ohio Chapel United Methodist Church near Columbus, Ind. last year to steal propane tanks. The vandals turned crosses upside down, smashed windows, and even torched a pew stored in the basement. Non-lethal incidents like church vandalism are a far cry from the bloodshed that occurred in the shadow of the rebuilt World Trade Center on Oct. 31, 2017 , when ISIS-aligned Uzbek immigrant Sayfullo Saipov drove a rented pickup truck down a crowded bicycle path , killing eight people and wounding 12. Yet, a Quartz report published Sept. 11 reviewing terrorist attacks in 2017 compares numerous low-level acts of vandalism to less frequent — but far more lethal — ji...

"Muslim adults comprise less than 1% of the U.S population, and yet according to the [Government Accountability Office] study, are responsible for a whopping 27% of the terrorism in the country. This is a significant overrepresentation among such a tiny minority..." No, You’re Not More Likely to be killed by a Right-Wing Extremist than an Islamic Terrorist by Damion Daniels, Areo Magazine, May 28, 2017 (thanks to Tim Furnish): On 22nd May, 2017, a 22 year old jihadist named Salman Ramadan Abedi wandered into the Manchester Arena during a concert populated primarily by young teens and their parents, and detonated a suicide bomb, killing 22 people including an 8 year old girl, and injuring approximately 120 others. This was the deadliest terror attack on U.K. soil since a group of jihadists murdered 52 commuters in the London transport attacks of 2005. We are often told that in the wake of a large scale atrocity of this kind, we should defy the terrorists by simply carrying on...