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A comment on The Invention of Islamophobia (2011). Parent comment

Re:The Invention of Islamophobia (2011) by factsaresacred on Sunday April 28, 2019 @07:18AM (#19770498)
> Nine EU Member States reported a total of 205 foiled, failed and completed terrorist attacks in 2017..These attacks killed 68 victims and left 844 injured. Nearly all casualties (62) were the result of jihadist terrorist attacks. The number of jihadist terrorist attacks grew from 13 in 2016 to 33 in 2017.

and:

> 975 individuals were arrested in the EU for terrorism-related offences (2016: 1002). Most of these arrests were related to jihadist terrorism

This from the EU Terrorism Situation & Trend Report

Also just read or watch any ISIS material for further evidence.

Or simply interact with reality.

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Re:The Invention of Islamophobia (2011) by tomlock on Sunday April 28, 2019 @09:21AM (#19771009)
> Or simply interact with reality.

I have and I've noticed that by far the easiest and most obvious demographic correlation with terrorism is men.

In my interactions with reality I've noticed that there's an inordinate/biased fear of Islam over and above a fear of men, in demographic terms, particularly among the men who tend to proclaim Islam is some immanent threat to Europe.

Maybe there's a useful word we can use, in reality, to describe an inordinate fear of Islam?

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