I'd question the statistics, first off. What defines each of those categories and what constitutes, more specifically, an attack?
I also note that they chose 1995 as the start date, thus including the Oklahoma City bombing but excluding the first bombing of the World Trade Center. There is no natural choice of 95 as an even numerical target, like "the last 20 years", so you have to presume they chose that year for that precise reason. Overall, both numbers are going to be small, so excluding one or two incidents for some arbitrary reason is going to significantly skew the results when expressed as a percentage. I'd tend to agree that we have more to worry about from violent domestic political groups than we do foreign, but those numbers sound suspect to bogus to me. Cheers, Judah On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > this went by on twitter today. thought it was interesting. > > > The QI Elves â@qikipedia > In the US since 1995, far-right extremists have carried out 56% of > domestic terrorist attacks; radical Muslims 12%. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:354176 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
