Originally posted by Jedidiah
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Islamist 3085
Right 219
Left 23
Note that almost all the Islamic extremist deaths are from 9/11. That should certainly be counted, but we should beware of letting one event dominate the assessment. Without 9/11, the Islamist number would be 102. A lot of data in the press is "since 9/11." This data is the last 25 years, i.e. since 1992.
If you count injuries rather than death, the numbers are similar:
Islamist 16365
Right 998
Left 46
However no two analysts count things the same way. This count excludes religious and racial attacks. For data on that see https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2015/.../victims_final. The largest victims there have generally been blacks, Jews, and gays, all of them traditional right-wing targets.
According to this article, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/o...l?mcubz=0&_r=0, the FBI believes hate crimes are underreported. Their annual report typically shows around 5000. They think the real number is more like 260,000. This is baed on a survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, asking people whether they've been the target of a hate crime. (https://www.economist.com/news/unite...crime-election)
These articles discuss the problems faced by trying to get recent data: https://qz.com/843834/are-hate-crime...e-to-the-data/. http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/health...fbi/index.html. Both show some signs of recent increases in attacks on Muslims, though attacks on Jews continue far more numerous.
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