Thursday, March 10, 2011

America: Muslims Make Up One Percent of Population, 80 Percent of Convicted Terrorists

As many Americans protest Congressional hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims, newly released statistics show why such hearings are necessary. In a country where Muslims make up one percent of the population, more than 80 percent of terrorists convicted by the U.S. since 9/11 have been Muslims. That, by definition, is a correlation.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE--More than 80 percent of all convictions tied to international terrorist groups and homegrown terrorism since 9/11 involve defendants driven by a radical Islamist agenda, a review of Department of Justice statistics shows.

Though Muslims represent about 1 percent of the American population, they constitute defendants in 186 of the 228 cases DOJ lists.

On Thursday, the House Homeland Security Committee holds its first hearing into radicalization among Muslim Americans. Critics have taken issue with the focus on one religious minority, but the DOJ list shows that radical Islamists are disproportionately involved in terror-related crimes.

Al-Qaida is involved in the largest number of prosecutions, representing 30 percent of the 228 terror cases involving an identified group. Hizballah-affiliated defendants are involved in 10.5 percent of the cases and Hamas is part of 9 percent. Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Tayyiba was involved in 6.5 percent of the cases.

The Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka and the Colombian FARC lead the non-Islamist terrorist groups, combining for 14 percent of the total. (Read more.)

2 comments:

Jabari said...

The good news is that muslims are still a minority here in America.

The bad news is that a majority of them take that false prophet Muhammad's commands to kill and subjugate non-muslims very seriously.

Fisher said...

I've heard some of the people up here who are associated with the North American Muslim Foundation (NAMF) try to say that not that many terrorists are actually Muslims. I guess this statistic blows that claim out of the water.

"Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike TERROR into the hearts of the enemies of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom you may not know, but whom Allah does know." (Sura 8:60)