I have to constantly write uphill against this White American presumption that they are better than everyone else.
Just as there is no symmetry of racism there is no symmetry of violence. Whites are easily the most violent people the world has seen since the Mongols. It is not even close.
This stereotype of violent Muslims comes from projection fed by confirmation bias (Noticing facts that fit your case, and ignoring ones that don't)
Till people start calling violence by Christians “Christian”, it is Islamophobic to call violence by Muslims “Muslim”.
I do not hear anyone calling Hitler a Christian extremist, he who killed 6 million JEWS. No. For some reason religion never enters into it. Just for those of OTHER religions.
Just as you and others may say that Hitler was not a true Christians, so too tons of Muslims say that ISIS are not true Muslims
Christianity has always been the “motivator” behind a lot of history’s darkest events, including the oppression of Africans and African Americans and the slaughter of Native Americans. One could say that God in the mindset of the white man was the devil himself.
They talks about ISIS beheadings of journalists, but not about the US bombing that led to it.
They talks about the massacre at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, but not about the school in Pakistan that the US bombed.
Why only half the picture ?
What we are seeing now in the Muslim world comes partly from the oil wealth of Saudi Arabia and Iran, partly from the US’s need for a new enemy after the collapse of the Soviet Union
Murder rate: White America, like most Christian countries in the Americas, Africa and Eastern Europe, is markedly more violent than most of the Middle East (murders per 100,000 population):
- 0.6 Bahrain
- 0.7 Oman
- 0.8 United Arab Emirates
- 0.9 Qatar
- 1.0 Saudi Arabia
- 1.2 Egypt
- 1.7 Cyprus
- 1.8 Jordan
- 2.0 Iraq
- 2.1 Israel
- 2.2 Kuwait
- 2.2 Lebanon
- 2.3 Syria
- 3.0 Iran
- 3.3 Turkey
- 3.4 WHITE AMERICA
- 4.1 Palestine
- 4.2 Yemen
Terrorist attacks: According to the FBI, only 6% of the terrorist attacks on U.S. soil between 1980 and 2005 were carried out by Muslim extremists. Even Jewish extremists carried out more (7%).
War: Wars with at least a million dead:
Christian wars:
- years: name: conservative body count in millions
- 535-554: Gothic Wars: 5.0m
- 790-1300: Reconquista: 7.0m
- 1096-1272: Crusades: 2.0m
- 1337-1453: Hundred Years’ War: 3.0m
- 1562-1598: French Wars of Religion: 3.0m
- 1568-1648: Dutch Revolt: 1.0m
- 1618-1648: Thirty Years’ War: 3.0m
- 1655-1660: Second Northern War: 3.0m
- 1763-1864: Russian-Circassian War: 2.0m
- 1792-1802: French Revolutionary Wars: 2.0m
- 1803-1815: Napoleonic Wars: 3.5m
- 1830-1903: War in Venezuela: 1.0m
- 1882-1898: Conquests of Menelik II of Ethiopia: 5.0m
- 1910-1920: Mexican Revolution: 1.0m
- 1914-1918: First World War: 20.0m
- 1917-1922: Russian Civil War: 5.0m
- 1939-1945: Second World War: 41.5m (European deaths only)
- 1946-1954: First Indochina War: 1.0m
- 1950-1953: Korean War: 1.2m
- 1955-1975: Vietnam War: 1.1m
- 1998-2003: Second Congo War: 2.5m
Muslim wars:
- 1370-1405: Conquests of Tamerlane: 7.0m
- 1681-1707: Conquests of Aurangzeb: 5.0m
- 1967-1970: Nigerian Civil War: 1.0m
- 1980-1988: Iran-Iraq War: 1.0m
- 1983-2005: Second Sudanese Civil War: 1.0m
- 1989-2001: Afghan Civil War: 1.4m
Seven times more people have died in Christian wars: 113.8 million compared to the 16.4 million who died in Muslim wars.
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