Your math project was fun...
Ok... new math.
The U.N. defined terrorism as "violence against civilians to achieve political or ideological objectives." 100,000 Iraqi civilians died in the first year of the US Occupation. Not militants, not radicals... innocent men women and children. I'd call that terrorism. Estimates in 2007 said that the US had a military of
1,449,428 Total Active Duty Personnel and a population of
301,139,947 citizens. Crunch the numbers... that's a per capita terrorist rate of 4.8% or 1 in 207 Americans.
And yet I don't make that generalization about Americans... or even soldiers. My good friend Khaled served two terms in Iraq.
but out of all the terroristic violence occurring since 2000 - how much of that could be attributed to non muslim people?
Did you look into those logical fallacies? Unrepresentative sample, Correlation not Causation, and Single Cause.
I don't respect violent people.
No one is asking you to respect violent people. I'm asking you to respect the other 99.95% of Muslims.
http://thereligionofpeace.com/ - it's an excellent site.
That's a matter of opinion
Contains a running list of violent attacks. Also speaks of dhimmitude.
What this?
You ever think of using a terrorism watch site that lists all attacks instead of just attacks committed by Muslims? I recommend
http://www.satp.org/. Best of all they actually tell you what organization perpetrated the attack, and what their goals and objectives are. Instead of just a number the word "Islam."
Today they list 7 attacks.
Three attacks are from Taliban in Pakistan, the first targeted police officers, the second military and the third was a threat against parliamentarians who supported President Musharaf. Not civilian targets, and all aimed at the political objective of removing Musharaf, a US puppet dictator.
One attack was from the Tamil Tigers in Srilanka who we discussed. The site calls them "arguably the most lethal and well organised terrorist group in the world." BTW they are Hindu... not Muslim.
Another Attack was from the United Liberation Front of Asom who are Socialists
Another from the Communist Party of India-Maoist who are Communists
And the last is from Al Badr... I'm assuming they are Muslim because the name is Arabic. The sites says, "The Al Badr was formed with the professed goal of strengthening the ‘Kashmiri freedom struggle.’ The outfit advocates that Kashmiris should be given the right of self-determination in accordance with the United Nations resolutions.
Freedom fighters, fighting in accordance with UN resolutions... and there's that word "self-determination" again.
Is it clear yet? The common trait amongst terrorists is not Islam, it is the struggle for self determination. All these attacks support my thesis not yours.
Anything I say to you would likely be said there.
I think that's probably because that's the only site you read. Isn't it interesting that I'm able to support my thesis from a multitude of non Muslim sources and you continually resort to the same web site.
Anything you say to me I can likely read in liberal MSM.
Yeah... show me. Because I don't read it.
Your level of mania is apparent. I shall offer no further challenge to you.
Than you either admit defeat, or accept the terms of my truce.
When it's Taliban, say 'Taliban". When it's Al-Qaeda say "Al-Qaeda". When it's Salafis say "Salafis". When it's Wahabis, say "Wahabis". So long as your making broad generalizations that categorize me and those I love with lunatics who throw acid on people I won't sit silently. Would you?