[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by jbdlfan

Not saying your feelings are silly. Just saying the foundation of these feelings are misplaced. Of course I'm not defending ANY terrorists, but for goodness, no, I don't worry about Islamic extremists when I fly. I worry if my pilot is drunk, if my luggage will be lost or if I will have a car waiting at the counter.
Now I do worry when I drive in Orlando at night, idiot drivers on I4 and the Turnpike and whether or not some people might actually stop at stop signs.
"In other words, approximately 2.5% of all terrorist attacks on U.S. soil between 1970 and 2012 were carried out by Muslims." This is almost statistically insignificant. Not my numbers....
"Between 1970 and 2011, 32 percent of the perpetrator groups were motivated by ethnonationalist/separatist agendas, 28 percent were motivated by single issues, such as animal rights or opposition to war, and seven percent were motivated by religious beliefs. In addition, 11 percent of the perpetrator groups were classified as extreme right-wing, and 22 percent were categorized as extreme left-wing."

Uh huh. We are talkin' NOW. And we are not talking Muslims, we are talking Islamic terrorists. Are you afraid of Islamic terrorists? If someone blew up a bridge or poisoned a big city water supply or sent Anthrax to the Office of the President of the United States, who would you think of first? We are not talking about all of the bad folks. We are talking about being honest about who is out to get us.