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Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by tome on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @10:52AM (#10581835)
Counting "number of attacks" is extremely misleading (I'm tempted to think, deliberately so). A moment's Googling shows that Islamic terror is responsible for the majority of deaths, by a long way

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7552225/terrorism-europe-chart

(and you can add a big chunk of green for France November 2015 now too)

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Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by kohanz on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @11:01AM (#10581897)
Speaking of cherry-picking data, no comment on the 2nd and 3rd points? As I said, I agree that terrorism (no matter how you categorize the attacks) is a significant problem, but that linking it with Islam is choosing to be manipulated by the extremists.
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Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by tome on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @11:06AM (#10581936)
I don't think that the numbers of ISIS and the numbers of muslims worldwide bear meaningful comparison.

Your third point I responded to in another reply.

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